“Just when I was beginning to understand Web 2.0, you’re going to tell me it’s bad?” Naaah. But, as a consumer, you should know the limitations. Further, you don’t want your colleagues, students, or family members exposed to toxic chemicals…wait. I lost the end to this sentence…oh, here it is under my bag of M & Ms. I mean: exposed to concepts about Web 2.0 that may overestimate its value. Consider the following criticisms:
CRITICISMS OF WEB 2.0
1. Keen argues that Web 2.0 undermines the notion of expertise by permitting anyone, anywhere to comment and contribute opinions and post any type of content regardless of knowledge, talent, credentials, or biases. It is assumed that all user-generated content is considered equally valuable and relevant, which is misguided.
2. Flintoff (2007) says that Web 2.0 has created “an endless digital forest of mediocrity: uninformed political commentary, unseemly home videos, embarrassingly amateurish music, unreadable poems, essays, and novels.”
IMPLICATIONS: How accurate is the information you’re reading and sharing? Those are nontrivial issues, as many of us have observed. Maybe these criticisms will refocus or emphasize the role of educators on teaching students how to be discriminating users of Internet resources in addition to producers, sharers, and consumers.
But, wait! Hold on to your wiki. Web 3.0 will address some of these problems as well.
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