Brannon's New Media Blog

The internet has grown in many ways people did not see coming. Over the last 20 years, the internet has exploded into an ever-growing organism, evolving to fit every days new wants and needs. As a testament to how much the internet has grown overtime, one can simply focus on two forms of media. The blog and Wiki spaces. In many ways, these two forms of media are extremely similar, both provide for a way to share information in a quick succinct way, making digging through extremely technical databases and extensive libraries obsolete in todays information sharing age (except in certain cases). However in many ways they cater to different purposely on a deeper level. A Wiki is more based around a collaborative, with many companies using it as a way for team members to work together on a project as a collective. For example, in "More on How to Build Your Own Wikipedia", Margaret Locher states in the second paragraph that "Diverse organizations, including businesses, schools

     I choose to do my project on how Reddit has led to various cases of groupthink and group polarization: a deeper look into the downsides of such large group discussions. I choose to do my project on this topic because of two main reasons. One being, a specific story involving the Boston Marathon bombings. It is a well documented story that one of the bombers was actually misidentified on Reddit and led to various issues and serious problems for the misidentified bomber. The second reason being my fascination on group dynamics. I took a class on Social Psychology at Baruch and in one of the chapters, my class discussed the positives and negatives of working in a group setting, with a variety of different factors effecting overall experience and execution such as group size and the role of the group. The positives of a group setting are definitely apparent but some people tend to overlook the downsides of it. I believe this second category to be much more interesting because of the l