W9. Discuss Reagle’s chapters 3-4


1.     Summary
Chapter 3 describes the importance of a collaborative culture and chapter 4 describes the Open Content Community.
A collaborative culture is a comprehensive set of norms and actions within a community that creates shared values of processes and products. Wikipedia is a good example of this cooperative culture. First, Wikipedia is a free content that anyone can edit. And Wikipedia users should follow and respect the code of conduct. We should participate in this from a neutral perspective, not from an effort to judge right from wrong.
Wikipedia is also an open content community that focuses on ' openness. ' It tries to create a universal encyclopedia and increase people's accessibility. Wikipedia shares community norms within it and prohibits arbitrary discrimination.

2.     Interesting Point
Wikipedia has its own code of conduct and norms. Some people are negative, highlighting Wikipedia's shortcomings. However, Wikipedia places importance on neutrality to erase the bias and tendency of information. What is needed here is the conscience of the participants. Depending on how much they follow Wikipedia's ethics, they can be a wonderful encyclopedia or an ideological battlefield. The attitudes and manners of the participants are central to Wikipedia's neutrality.

3.     Discussion Point
Because each person has different experiences and knowledge, they have no choice but to write information based on their own criteria, " frames. " Even if there is a source, the context is different as the information is reconstructed again, and I can select the information and enter only part of it. While other partners may modify it, in the end, information is bound to be subjective. What criteria should we have to remain neutral?

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