▶ Your Answer : The reading and the lecturer both discuss about the change from traditional encyclopedias to communal online encyclopedias. According to the reading passage, because of some crucial problems such as lack of information, hacking and focus, it's non-priceless information than traditional one, but lecturer suspects the writer's points with three reasons. First of all, although all of the people who revise or add are not professional, comparing to old work, the possibility to make more accurate document is increasing. Before online encyclopedia was invented, all of them were made of papers and those had little chance to be revised. On the contrary, a variety of people could access to the internet and there's more chance to read, think and finally correct them. Second, the lecturer argues that it's unbelievable that some unintended users will eliminate the original draft. According to the lecturer, if the encyclopedias are made by crucial fact and use the format by reliable person, because all of the alterations would be recorded, it's hard for hackers or vandals to replace them with other contents with their own thinking. Finally, it's true that there's abundant information so that it would not be suitable for specific people, but the lecturer mentions that it's rather advantage of the online system. In the past, due to limited space to write, authors could put all of the contents at their paper and had to pick just essential things. However, in digital place, that's not a serious problem, so they could put altogether in one place. The role of the researchers are just classify what they want to get from one encyclopedia. |