Many thanks to Josh Levy for making a guest appearance in the class today. He talked about a lot of interesting aspects of social software and how they might be used to address health issues.
One thing he talked about that I want to think about more is the difference between WebMD and a health-focused wiki as sources of health information. Which do you trust more? Why?
I was also intrigued by Josh's discussion of the Tsunami Blog and Wiki.
More about this later....
I actually do not trust WebMD, since the afilliation of the doctors with pharm giants is either not disclosed or if it is, just in a short statement. Wikis are interesting and the ones that are edited by many peers are more precise. After all Wikis undergo greater scrutiny than the pharma sponsored website of WebMD.
ReplyDeleteI feel scared of all information from the internet and I don't really trust anyone. Perhaps, those from the government are quite trusted.
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