Wednesday, 22 June 2011

Does Web 2.0 encourage decentralization?


Weller suggests that decentralization, democratization and bottom-up processes characterize the world of Web 2.0.

I guess that the website ‘delicious’ supports this characterization, as its tagging folksonomy is completely decentralized and in the hands of users.

Wikipedia is slightly different – although much of the content creation is decentralized, the editing process is done by a smaller group of people, with ultimate control being highly centralized in the hands of a small group of people who have not been democratically appointed.

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