Friday, October 29, 2010
JMU Only
I believe a JMU wiki would differ greatly from a worldwide version. JMU has specific guidelines, or a checklist, to the typical student they want at their school. So, after getting accepted, its as if you are now part of one big club. Also, after attending college for at least one year, your opinions tend to get biased. If the assignment was to talk about what is the best college in the United States, JMU's wiki would be completely different from the world's perspective. After the riot last year, the world had this perception that JMU was a no-for-good party school that is detrimental to society. However, if JMU's society was to create a wiki on that experience, they would be able to tell the world there were about 12 felonies committed that day, and 11 of them were not JMU students. People from all over the country came to JMU on that day because we have a great student body who are smart, and also like to have a good time. So, I believe the wikis would be far from similar, but JMU's wiki would definitely have a higher quality in respect to the subject I brought up. I say this because we know exactly what is going on, experiencing national news of events like the riot first-hand. JMU knows what happened that day, and the rest of the nation/world does not.
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Good example - there will be bias... but also a personal perspective.
ReplyDeleteBut how does that "power-law distribution thing" affect a JMU version? Are members of the JMU community like the rest of the world in terms of diversity of thought and effort?