Class Wide Web with Devlin Marino

In our web 3.0 society, knowledge to essentially everything is at our fingertips. The days of needing to rifle through the page upon page of encyclopedias, how-to books, or other books have become a thing of the past. Wikipedia, wikiHow, Youtube Videos, and multiple other wikis have taken their place and provide people all across the world valuable skills and information including everything on how to load a price gun to what is the best enclosure/habitat for a pet gecko. One of the most useful tools that have been a part of our connected world is wikiHow. You can essentially find a “how-to” for anything on wikiHow and anyone can post one, or contribute to one.  One topic that has yet to grace the wikiHow pages is “How to use Kratom: The Southeast Asian leaf that has been hailed as a “wonder drug” and is helping everyday people overcome pain and opioid addiction”. Kratom is a natural stimulant that in high dosages is very sedative and in low dosages is very stimulating. Various...

Every day, people from all across the world immediately receive international news through social media. Due to social media, people can receive news and information in the blink of an eye, but is that necessarily a positive thing?  Social media has made it possible for everyday people, just like you, to receive some of the world’s most dire and pertinent information and news, even before people directly involved with it. The new social media world we live in is a distant comparison to social media 10 years ago. The internet is much faster now and news travels across the globe within seconds. In many cases, news can get shared across social media and end up being fabricated, as well as the news about someone going viral before they even knew. Fresh in everyone’s mind is the recent tragedy of Kobe and Gianna Bryant’s deaths, where social media caused a tremendously negative effect. Before Vanessa Bryant, Kobe’s wife had received any news, TMZ reported that Kobe Bryant’s helicop...