Web 2.0: The Phenomenon of Wisdom of the Crowds, Crowdsourcing, and Citizen Journalism and How It Drives Social Media and New Media Including Blogs, Podcasts, Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Linkedin, Wikipedia and Virtual Worlds Like Second Life

by Elane Casselberry

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. This book explains the history of the internet and how it came to be "Web 2.0," an interactive social experience. It discusses how collective thinking or "wisdom of the crowds" creates successful projects like Digg and Wikipedia and also new media opportunities as citizen journalists like blogs and podcasts. It covers a number of popular social media sites like Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter and their history, as well as the idea of virtual worlds like Second Life. Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Project Webster continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge.

280 pages, Paperback

First published June 9, 2011