BCM206 | Week 7
Build around the content creation and curation a key element of the term “walled gardens”. For users to have to reassurance that they’re getting content they like, the popularity and accessibility of the platform and that they’re “safe” online guarantees continued usage.
These walled gardens, hold so much power over the interest – they’re in collaboration with each other in a sense but also the biggest competitors of each other. They’re a new dawn of internet entering and emerging every day. We’re slowly but surely creating an Internet changing it’s original values without defining them. (Batelle, J 2012)
We had originally hoped for our DA the same success BuzzFeed holds in our Da It is no where as big as the FAANG walled garden (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google). We wanted to create a microscopic version of this (a different community) through building up various followings on different social media websites, and creating different content there.
References:
– Batelle, J 2012, It’s Not Whether Google’s Threatening. It’s Asking Ourselves: What Commons Do We Wish For?, https://battellemedia.com/archives/2012/02/its-not-whether-googles-threatened-its-asking-ourselves-what-commons-do-we-wish-for
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