Description
Media, the Latin plural of medium, is a provider of information. Humans are a means of storing or delivering information that began with origin of the humanity,. Current media is variety of platforms such as electronic, mass, multi digital, news, broadcast and social media. This paper examines a popular social media platform, Reddit, which self-professes to be the "Front Page of the Internet"™ as a mode of crowdsourcing.
Date of creation, presentation, or exhibit
7-2014
Document Type
Conference Paper
Department, Program, or Center
Information Sciences and Technologies (GCCIS)
Recommended Citation
Beaton, Catherine and Vullo, Ronald P., "Wisdom of Crowds or Mob Mentality" (2014). Accessed from
https://repository.rit.edu/other/862
Campus
RIT – Main Campus
Comments
Post-print. Originally presented at the European Conference on Social Media (ECSM), July 10-11, 2014, Brighton, United Kingdom. Proceeding published by Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited.