Alllen's annotated bibliography

My comments on Allen's annotated bibliography:

Allen, these look like good sources. In terms of writing your own annotated bibliography, you should write the summary of the article in your own words, which enables you to capture the main idea but also record particular details or quotes specific to your project.


Borrowing concepts such Basgier's author function and defining the site as a new genre and how it is like or unlike genres described in previous reserach and that exist on the Web can be the bulk of your paper.

I was struck by your summary of the Wired articles where you write the community has the ability to "its ability to spontaneously come together" to influence culture or protest corporations. This seems like a good example of a new form of online social agency.

You say 4chan is not Web 2.0 but you may want to double-check definitions of what counts as Web 2.0. Usually, Web 1.0 is considered static information, or the "one-way" transmission of information from website to user. Once the transmission of information becomes "two ways," where users can interact with the site or each other on the site, it moves into Web 2.0 technology.