Thursday, February 10, 2011
CHANGE
In 1993, the internet was looked at as helpful, informing and connecting to other people. To this day it remains the same. helping people connect to others. Those are the only similarities they have. Now 18 years later people are hooked on it. People spend hours upon hours on the internet almost like a job that they dont ever get paid for. This is definetley what a person wouuld call "Free Labor". Youtube makes a lot of money off of people posting videos on their site. How is it that we dont recieve a penny for making sites popular? Are we using the sites or is the site using us?
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How does YouTube make money? How do these web sites benefit from us, and how do we benefit from them? I wonder if it's equitable? What do Jenkins (and others) have to say about this kind of economy--like the "gift economy" concept--and why we contribute to it not only by paying for things but as labors of love, so to speak? What is it that we are contributing to? And what DO we get out of it? I think some (many) people find their rewards. But they're not necessarily financial.
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