No doubt today one of the highlighted problems with social media is quality issues. Especially low quality videos are becoming part of the some social websites like youtube which are creating problem of filtering for the users and sometime unnecessary , unproved , without any references text of are adding by some users on some websites like Wikipedia etc. Pictures qualities are very low on some websites like Flicker and Facebook. So why this is happening, it time to know , may be people want to more innovative and want the part of media and may be they need some set of rules to handle these issues in future.
I suggest one best solution is time, I mean now days technologies is improving day by day and now people are themselves good thinker and self examiner. Mobiles phone cameras technology basically behind these issues. High level competition between mobile companies made them able for updating their technologies which will definitely affect the social media and its improvement in the future. I think some of the companies are itself part of these issues, they do not have set of standards to solve out these issues, just need more data and users. Websites allow the users to add low quality videos if they restrict to some standard formats then it will be good solution and user will also get a complete guidelines that should standard they have to adopt at least.
In case information social sites like Wikipedia need to improve it at software development level. May be it look difficult at this time but I think they should have to develop some checks and constraints which will provide some securities to data and check source and some references in that article. It is very hard to hire people for proof reading.
User should be restricted according to professional studies and when they are submitting some article provide some references and book names which will verify at software level. If we look at traditional media we trust on it because of it authentic source and description, just need to implement these strategies, may be it looks difficult but not impossible. Secondly in traditional media quality is also big problem, so we can’t say that, this issue is only related with social media. Social media people still need training and guidance where in traditional media mistakes are done by professionals. So it is time being problem but not threat. Blogs training manuals and some other programs can be helpful to find out the solution.
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I find what you write to be interesting. The way I understand your essay is that you would favor some sort of gate keeping being done by the social media sites. This would in turn limit the spread of low quality media which almost has a drowning effect on the sites today. I notice that when you discuss quality you refer to the technical quality of the products and not so much the content (even though you talk about Wikipedia in a paragraph).
ReplyDeleteI find that the biggest problem isn’t the bad cameras, but the bad use of bad cameras – if you understand what I mean. Just look at the use of Dogma movie making. They only used hand cameras, but still some of the results it accomplished were astonishing.
However, I am not so sure that the social media sites should do anything about the bad quality. I think that it will compromise the relationship between the user and the platform and will most definitely limit the number of contributors and users. One should not forget that the power of the social media is that everyone can take part and create something that at least has value for them. If some major company would go in say that what you have created is not good enough, you will probably get upset, sad and irritated.
By: Johan Östberg
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ReplyDeleteI think you give a really good suggestion that let time solve all the problems. Time can change everything. It is also a good example of the mobile phone industry. The mobile phone producers really make their efforts on the development of new products. They integrated MP3 player in the mobile phone, camera, GPS, WIFI, radio, what is next? It is said they will integrate projecter in mobile phone. Isn't it amazing when you want to show your friends some pictures from the mobile phone, you can project the pictures direct from the mobile phone on the wall or other what ever objects? i think that is so cool, will will buy this kind of mobile phone for sure.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with you that in traditional media, quality is also a big problem. Even there are authentic source and description, we can not believe all the contents. But i do not quite understand what you talked about blog training manuals and some other programs can be helpful to find out the solution. Do you think you can explain a little bit about it?
By Qiong Jia
I agree with you that now in many social media website, the quality of many videos or pictures are low. And it's true with the technology development, this problem may solved. The moblie companies description also gives a good solution for this problem. I believe the solution comes up with the technology development of Mobiles phone cameras can improve the quality issues about the social media application. With improved cameras, people can supply better quality product they want to publish.
ReplyDeleteTo make rule for the users, this also a good solution to deal with the quality problem. But I aslo think make standards for the formats which the users can upload, may make some use uncomfortable.Snice not everyone have the knowledge to transmit him/her unstandard format into the right one, or someone may think it too un-convenient to upload thing to that websit. So maybe it's better not to ask the users to submit the standard format themselves, but those social media website can provide the technology which can transmit to the un-standard issue into the right things intead of the users.
For the case like punlishing information in Wikipedia, I think it's a very good solution to deal with these problems.
By Wang, Yiqing