Both texts from today stand together under the ideas that web 2.0 is a vast improvement for people as a whole. They each felt that web 2.0 was merely the unlocking of the technology that already existed for the general public. With this unlocking of the tech, people have been able to use the knowledge of the masses in order to learn faster and improve by cooperativeness teach ourselves.
The difference from this view come from the authors individual backgrounds and audience. Because Trent Batson is a professor of English, he would not have on hand knowledge perhaps of the inner workings of the new web systems.Instead Trent would try to relate to the feelings of his audience personally. This is why he starts off with the "I hate that term." On the flip side Bryan Alexander is a director for technology. Basically he knows how it works and can talk about it. Not only that but his Audience is people like himself so they too might look at it the same way.
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I like the way you phrased it as "the unlocking of the technology that already existed for the general public." This phrase alone can sum up all the similarities between the two articles. I also benefited from your analysis of the authors based on their backgrounds; it helped to explain the differences in their focus of the technological improvements. They both saw the changes in a fairly similar way, but they each focused on different aspects due to their roles.
ReplyDeleteI also liked the way you mentioned how Web 2.0 was merely "the unlocking of the technology that already existed." I never thought about it like that. I just figured that Web 2.0 was a new fad that was suddenly emerging, but now that I think about it, all the pieces were in place before. We have only just started to scratch the surface on ways that we can utilize this open web source as a means of effective communication.
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