W6. How important is it to be civil online on the Internet? - DongJoon, Yoo


2012047886 Dong-Joon, Yoo

1. Summary

Wikipedia is free content that anyone may edit. Respect your fellow Wikipedians even when you may not agree with them. Be civil. Avoid conflicts of interest, personal attacks, and sweeping generalizations. Find consensus, avoid edit wars, follow the three-revert rule, and remember that there are 3,002,347 articles on the English Wikipedia to work on and discuss. Act in good faith, never disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point, and assume good faith on the part of others. Be open and welcoming. These are the rules Wikipedia encourages. 

2. Interestin Points

I think being a citizen online is like being a citizen in the real world. Now I live as a citizen and a member of society in Korea. There were many problems with ‘anonymity’ in the early days of the Internet, though today. If it is possible to communicate directly with face to face when offline, it is possible to hide its face as it goes through online. Of course, some people keep and operate on ‘Netiquette’, but others use the Internet under the shadow of anonymity, which is a side effect of the Internet.


3. Discussion Points

This new medium, the Internet, has features that can not be compared to any previous medium. While previous media clearly discriminated between private and public, the Internet is a mixture of these two. This raises the question of the extent to which the Internet is limited in its public responsibility. Issues of Internet ‘anonymity’ are also included in this question. The stance behind the real-name system is that it is a public media, a medium in which the Internet exerts considerable social influence, rather than remain in private media, accompanied by corresponding social responsibility and the real-name system is a part of such responsibility.  The opposition is that anonymity can help the development of democracy by maximizing the freedom of expression and enabling various opinions and lively discussions. I wonder what other classmates think.

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