Brief on Common Based Peer Production and Virtue
Loading ...Hey class let me just apologize in advance for the late post i didnt realize till just now that I am responsible for the discussion of the reading today in class so here is my brief.
The article explores and talks about a system that is emerging especially through the web, the system is this type of open source forum that allows mass amounts of people to contribute to the creation of free software or information. Its a system that is not owned by anyone and is a collective effort; collaborative project.
One of the arguments made in the text is that this type of collaboration fosters virtue in its participants. Because participants are free to participate as little or as much as theyd like and control the content that they share or contribute, the virtue that essentially comes out of this is that of liberation.
When I first read this article my first thought was about Wikipedia which the article does talk about how it has grown over the years and one of the more well known open forums. However, this entire article raised the question for me about authenticity? While it may be considered a great phenomena that so many people can come together and contribute information and ideas to create a “whole”, with no owner or manager how can the information presented on something such as wikipedia be trusted. I feel as though the information found on wikipedia can not be used or taken as truth unless further research is done to back it up, in which case what is the point of wikipedia?
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