A6Hiphoppipotimi

A6Hiphoppipotimi

To-Do

1. study the document “Projects for the HCC Foundation Course” (in “Students’ Projects” on the Wiki)
2. select a project that is of real interest to you
3. find collaborators and form a group of peers (such a group may already exist) with whom you will work on the project
4. sign up for the project (if it is still available) on the site “Students’ Projects”
5. identify parts of the project and an initial role distribution between your team members
6. each team member should contribute
   1. a brief rational what she/he finds interesting
   2. what she/he plans to do to get started on the project

Which project did you select?

Project-8: Model-Authoritative versus Model-Democratic

Describe the parts of the project you have identified and the initial role distribution among your team members

We'll research the different bullet points and distribute them amongst the team members. We'll then meet and discuss our research and put it into an informative presentation.

For each team member, provide a brief rational what she/he finds interesting

Jon - Information repositories are an important part of our culture moving forward, especially with the easy access of the internet. How many times has someone said "IMDB it" or "Wikipedia it"? It's extremely interesting to me how someone would validate this information and ensure its correctness. How do we trust the information from our peers? Wikipedia has shown that society has less than informative motivations when creating an article, and as discussed in class, bias creeps into information. This seems to me to be the major bump in the road for model-democratic information stores to become a legitimate source of scholarly information, if they ever in fact do so.

Ariel- I'd like to look further into the standards set for input filters. What qualifies a product as "ready to be released" for the rest of the world to see? If an input filter is very strict or consist of unstable means of having a product pass, how persistent is the creator in getting their product through? Do we lose information this way? From the other side, what action do consumers take to seek information? There's a lot to investigate in terms of societal norms and functionality as well as if these characteristics are cultural or human instinct and means of adaptation.

For each team member, provide a statement of what she/he plans to do to get started on the project

Jon - I'm really interesting in bullet points 4 and 5, and plan to do research on curators and output filters in either setting. This seems like a good jumping off point to truly understand the difference in credibility between the two models, and I'll go from there in developing the presentation with the rest of the group.

Ariel - I plan on beginning research on information repositories as a whole. How much is really out there? Are some things intentionally hidden and what does it take to access such information/products? These findings will help the group move forward in defining distinctions between model authoritative and model democratic.