Quality Control
Quality control on information sources has always been a concern for academics.
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Rieh (2002) states that: "In the Web, making judgments of information quality and authority is a difficult task for most users because overall, there is no quality control mechanism" (p. 145). |
However, in social networking tools, quality control can be enforced either by administrators or by users. In the case of Wikipedia, everybody on the Internet can edit and make changes to Wikipedia. Mainly because of this reason is that it receives negative criticism from scholars. Weblogs also are part of this quality control issue because they are made to allow their writers to express themselves quickly. In other social networks like Facebook, most of the quality control centers on keeping harmful content outside of the network, administrators can enforce it and also the users, by reporting users or groups. So, we could say that quality control in social networks is related to the wisdom of the crowd. Complementary reading: please read the Five Pillars of Wikipedia and reflect how they influence the overall quality control of that site.