WEB 2.0

What is "web 2.0" and what makes is so much different from the earlier version, "web 1.0"? A decade ago Web 1.0 was new, mysterious, and genius. It gave users an insight into anything we wanted to know without running to the dictionary or encyclopedia. We were able to send an email to our friends and recieve what felt like an almost instant reply compared to snail mail. But it has within the last few years mad way for it's powerful younger brother web 2.0. Web 2.0 has let the user and producers be more collaborative. We have collective production of content creation, meaning there are ideas from many different angles. Web 2.0 leads to a better more informed society, most feel, because the more informed the public is the more intelligent we become.

Web 2.0 has created a new term used to describe the interaction we have between producers of content and recievers (users), produsage. Produsage's equation is production+usage= produsage. The characteristics of produsage are probalistic, equipotentiality, granularity, sharing culture Probalistic is participation of trial and error. Equipotentiality is the concept that on the web everyone is potentially equal. I question then who do we hold accountable for the information put on the net? Granularity is that we are one piece of sand in the giant ocean and we can get such minute pieces of information about anything. And lastly through the web we share culture. We are able to partake and research worlds that we have and may never travel.

All this is seem in different media avenues such as Wikipedia, Facebook, and Flickr. Wikipedia is a perfect example of produsage. Anyone is able to produce information and content as well as people are able to use it. These are all examples of information sharing networks used to contribute information for everyone to view and inform.