Collaboration is used everywhere by everyone to communicate, share information, combine knowledge, etc. To collaborate means to work with others to produce or create something. Examples of collaboration can be found on the internet (Wikipedia), social media (Facebook and Twitter), in business meetings, everyday conversations, group projects, etc. The article, What is Collaboration Anyway?, explains the meaning of collaboration in great meaning, including real-life examples of different people creation collaborations. One example given in the article was about Stephen Colbert, who hosts a Late Night Show on CBS, created the term "wikiality," which refers to the collaboration of knowledge, thoughts and ideas about a topic on Wikipedia. I found that the example about Wikipedia being a collaborative website was useful because every topic on the website was creating by multiple people sharing their knowledge. Although a lot of the time we put our heads together is beneficial for learning more about a topic, for a website like Wikipedia, which gives users the option to edit definitions and add their own thoughts, collaboration can cause all sorts of issues for users like fabrication or misleading information. If users understand that Wikipedia is a collaborative site made for people to share their knowledge and edit others, then Wikipedia is a useful source.
Hi Monica,
ReplyDeleteGlad to see a journalism student taking an ESOC class, you'd never realize it until you actually take the classes as to how relatable these classes can be to journalism. I liked your blog post today because you gave great detail as to what a collaboration really is. For something that sounds so simple to define in your head, it can be hard to define it in simple terms on the internet. I liked what you said about Wikipedia and how the entire site itself is a form of collaboration because anyone can write a Wikipedia page and others can simply add to it, to make it better or more factual. The only issue about Wikipedia is knowing what information is actually real and not since anyone can edit the pages that were created about certain topics and people. Overall, great post today.
Im glad you focused on Wikipedia and the example we read on Stephen Colbert. One main point from this reading that I gathered was that collaboration can have it's benefits, but it can also have it's downfalls. Relating this to Wikipedia, there are obviously many positive aspects to this collaborative type of webpage since we can share ideas and increase our knowledge. But as we learned, Wikipedia can also have it's negative sides since it is so collaborative and open. I think this also relates to the freedom we can experience through collaboration. And the same applies to freedom when we acknowledge that there are benefits as well as downfalls. Great post!
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed your post. I thought you did a fantastic job on the chosen focused points you took from the reading of "What is Collaboration anyways?" I too thought your example relating back to the Wikipedia site was perfectly used. This example was a lot easier for me to understand the points your were trying to get across. Wikipedia is such an easy example of how collaboration can possibly cause more issues then help the learning process.
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