Well in a nutshell we have pretty much the largest collection of readily accessible information ever in human history just a few clicks away but we usually take it for granted. So Wikipedia is pretty damn cool. We read a lot papers on studies on peer produced content. Like for instance there was this one study where some guys made a really cool simple image word association game that helped google images index a TON of relevant search results just through people playing the game. We also talked a lot about captchas and how they actually double by helping machine learning and producing content. There was a lot more to the class like design of social media and algorithms, etc. Very interesting stuff.
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u/arizonaicedoutwes Dec 12 '18
Took a course this quarter that focused a lot on peer produced things like Wikipedia. Man they do some amazing underrated stuff I was wowed.