Graduation project WdKA. A story around a networked image, questioning the wisdom of the crowd on newsrooms.

YouTube,Twitter, Facebook… these new media allow users to publish, by uploading movies, sharing images or commenting on a post, and aggregates user activity into a large amount of data that end up being considered as ‘the wisdom of the crowd’. The question, however, is whether the wisdom of the crowd is always right. The story around this ‘networked image’ reveals how the opinion of the majority can manipulate the facts and hide other perspectives. The image was contextualized as a news article in de Volg-je-krant to show how newsrooms can be turned into interactive platforms for opinion formation.

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