While reading the article on We Media, I thought of the many "participatory" websites I have visited. Wikipedia has been one of the most useful websites for me in research for classes. Probably not such a good idea, because the information is coming from participants that aren't exactly "professional".
My dad, a farmer, was looking at wikipedia one day and was reading up on "Caterpillars", you know, the machine, not the bug. Anyways, he has lived on a farm most of his life, so he knows alot about caterpillars, especially since he owns about a million books about farm equipment. When he was reading the article in wikipedia, he noticed that all the information was wrong, the first thing he said was "These people have no idea what they are talking about", and he was probably right because anyone could be giving the info, even people uneducated in the subject.
This makes me wonder is this whole participatory media is such a good thing, becuase alot of the info could be false. What do you think about this?!
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