Success of Internet has been driven by freedom to access information. Intitial internet era was about contents being pushed to consumers.
Over couple of years this trend has changed a lot , no more contents are pushed to consumers but consumers have been creator of contents itself. This shift from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 is dominating Internet.
Success of Facebook and recently much in News Wikileaks is testimony to the fact that consumer has evolved in adopting Web 2.0 with contents created and shared by them.
This also brings interesting aspect of consumer sensitivity :
1. Wikileaks have been an open media with news generated by individuals and though it provides freedom to report and express but on other hand could be used to expoit if not authentic information published.
2. Facebook provided freedom to post on Wall , photos etc, its consumer who has to decide information to be shared.
There was example of cases where one was forthcoming in puting his travel plans and it ended up robbery at home.Similarly personnal issues if shsred , sometimes can be exploited.
As we move to new age of Internet where consumer created content , its pertinent to groom young generation in understanding issues . This requires special curriculum in schools and parenting.
Going beyond suggesting laws and punishment against someone enticing with wrong information needs new types of regulation .These new issues are beyong cyber crimes .Their is need to undersand complexity arising due to consumer based contents.
Are you sure you're talking about wikileaks and not wikipedia?
ReplyDeleteWikileaks' "consumers" and content-creators are different.