Framing – Lanier/Jenkins

Look at any newspaper website and you can see that trolling is an issue in the comments section. Lanier believes that the design is mostly to blame. On many sites you have to sign up in order to leave comments, but with the ease of making a new email address and leaving a fake name it is easy to become anonymous. How do we design these sites better so that there is interactions between users but not the constant lack of respect that takes place online?

Lanier talks about lock-in and impending lock-in of web 2.0. How do we adapt what is already locked in or is he saying that we absolutely can’t? Who should be making the choices about the future of the web now?

Jenkins talks about fandom. There seems to be a fine balance to the production companies. They want to make money and the fans want the freedom to expand on the ideas that have already been produced. Is a turn back to a more folk-culture because of amateur works by fans a bad thing? Isn’t imitation the highest form of flattery?

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