The second part to Andrew Dalby's book further discusses Wikipedia and the reasons behind its popularity. Dalby talks about the reasons why people love Wikipedia and also delivers reasons why Wikipedia its popular in a lot of peoples minds. The concept of Wikipedia is truly remarkable and has revolutionized how we share and receive information. I think the biggest concept to take from this book is how powerful Wikipedia can be, and its social consequences. Looking at it from a communication perspective, Wikipedia has made it easy to share and edit useful information and has become a source for knowledge about almost anything. It has evolved into an online community that consists of people from all over the world. As Dalby says in the book, the freedom of being able to communicate your voice to this online community is why Wikipedia has been so successful.
The unique thing about Wikipedia is that its constantly evolving from new edits and threads added every minute. The more time that passed to more information that is added to Wikipedia and there seems to be no end. This has a a impact on society because it has created a live source for information and a community of knowledge. Wikipedia is another player in the emergence in social networking by being able to connect people all over the world. This has truly changed the way people obtain information and will only grow larger as we move into the future.
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