B-Group6-HP

A) Look at __ Shifting of Content Production to Users (SCPU) __and CSGK Wiki B (Impact on government, politics and employment) In your own words write below "what is this topic about?" - Give some examples and links where possible. ...................................................................................

 Shifting of content production means that users are generating more and more content all the time. Websites that let you do this are [|www.youtube.com], [|www.myspace.com], [|www.facebook.com], ect. These sites let you create your own things and post for everyone around the world to view. If you were to make a video on YouTube you would be creating the content yourself. Websites that allow you to create your own content is growing vastly in popularity. Users have the freedom and power of being able to contribute and share there information for everyone to see. Shifting of content production to users has a great impact on many areas of our society, these areas are; education, government, politics, employment, arts entertainment, leisure, science, environment, and health.

The most controversial website for information to be gathered from is [|www.wikipedia.com], since anyone can log on and change and edit articles, teachers see that this means that the information may not be accurate. This is not true as people that started the article can see what people have edited, and delete it if people are being stupid. The articles also have references down the bottom of the page, so this shows where people have got there information from. Wikipedia is a great free encyclopedia to gather information and knowledge.

User generated content is slowly gaining popularity for advertising. Companies have noticed that no one knows what would be appealing to a "regular person" better then a regular person. They are now relying on the public to fuel their advertising campaigns. Companies that have done this are, Sony, L'Oreal, Toyota, American Express, General Mills, JetBlue, MasterCard, and Apple.

Impact on government, politics and employment is the study of law and keeps the country running in order and can cause major problems like it has in the past such as wars, physical fights in Parliament and murder or assassinations. Most Politicians are hated because of the new laws or tax increases which affect everyone in a harmful way, whether it is money or food. The Prime minister is the reasoning that this country has and even though he has made some shocking decisions nobody is perfect. You would think that with the increasing amount of factories and expanding our economy there would be more and more jobs out there and a fair go for everyone but infact allot of people are unemployed and homeless.

References: http://horizonproject2008.wikispaces.com/Shifting+of+Content+Production+to+Users

http://horizonproject2008.wikispaces.com/SCPU+Gov-Pol_Employ

B) Looking at CSGK Wiki B (Impact on government, politics and employment) - List 3 things that are very good about this wiki project

 It Is very Proffensionally typed and is very informative

It is sortof visualy appealing (NotGreat)

Great Use of Hyperlinks

C) Looking at CSGK Wiki B (Impact on government, politics and employment) - List 2 suggestions for improving the wiki page

Littlle bit more information would really help to inform more people about politics

Perhaps some Pictures and videos would make it more Visualy appealing to people looking at your page note: its boring to read and not watch

Maybe some more Hyperlinks to other pages that can inform people of politics

Maybe some more use of colour eg. borders and shading

D) Looking at CSGK Wiki B (Impact on government, politics and employment) - List 1 piece of new knowledge our group has obtained thanks to this wiki page

Collective intelligence helps the govenment to: better assess laws