Quality Control
Overall, the participants associated quality control with Wikipedia and they have a good perception on this case. For the other social networks, quality control is about keeping the networks free from harmful content. Even when quality control was viewed as a positive thing, the concerns raised by Participants 4 and 6 are interesting to comment. There could be a point where the quality control will challenge the free nature of social networks, ending up controlled by a producer. It can happen, if some of the stakeholders reach high levels of power or influence over what gets in and what gets out. However I think that in Wikipedia and other social networks, the philosophy of the wisdom of the crowd has been well implemented. In Wikipedia every change has to be reviewed by its community, where there are challenges to change an article, there are spaces were editors can discuss the issues and reach an agreement in how to write about something. Every Internet user can be an editor there and the openness and democracy of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects seem to work. In Facebook and
other social networks it is possible to report bad behavior or bullying, I suppose that if enough users complain, the administrators take actions. It is important to keep these environments safe from bad intentions and negative content, especially for the children. This case is discussed further below in the negative consequences section (see section 4.3.16).
Quality ControlOverall, the participants associated quality control with Wikipedia and they have a good perception on this case. For the other social networks, quality control is about keeping the networks free from harmful content. Even when quality control was viewed as a positive thing, the concerns raised by Participants 4 and 6 are interesting to comment. There could be a point where the quality control will challenge the free nature of social networks, ending up controlled by a producer. It can happen, if some of the stakeholders reach high levels of power or influence over what gets in and what gets out. However I think that in Wikipedia and other social networks, the philosophy of the wisdom of the crowd has been well implemented. In Wikipedia every change has to be reviewed by its community, where there are challenges to change an article, there are spaces were editors can discuss the issues and reach an agreement in how to write about something. Every Internet user can be an editor there and the openness and democracy of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects seem to work. In Facebook andother social networks it is possible to report bad behavior or bullying, I suppose that if enough users complain, the administrators take actions. It is important to keep these environments safe from bad intentions and negative content, especially for the children. This case is discussed further below in the negative consequences section (see section 4.3.16).
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