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**David, Shay**

Biography
 Shay David is currently studying for his doctorate degree at Cornell University. There Mr. David, studies interactions between software and the connections society has in every day duties. Mr. David is happily married to his wife, Ofri Cnaani, who is a very established video artist. He attended Tel-Aviv University, which is an university for students overseas. (https://www.telavivuniv.org/Default.aspx). He also studied at New York University where he devoted his time to researching the political aspect of programs and software and the distribution amongst society. Mr. David also help start up his success by co-producing and co-founding two software companies. Kaltura, the company in which he helped start up in 2006 was built up internationally in Israel, but runs in New York. The mission of Kaltura is to help internet users to network and pool resources in 'rich - media'. [] Dr. David's company has become triumphant and has expanded to produce and colloberate with many new sites such as WIKI, Wikipedia, and WikiEducator. [] He continues to be successful writing and researching articles on software.



=**Towards Participatory Knowledge - Quick Facts **= In his article "Towards Participatory Knowledge" Dr. David discusses the evolution of media and change in what is provided in the internet. In the present year web users are able to search and pay for any information on anyone such as medical, financial, scientific, or political views as well as search for guidance or advice on any subject thought of. Dr. David expresses his concern of what is being accessible and how accurate this information is on the web. The article focuses on taking the knowledge that is given and dissecting it in order to understand the process of casual data and how its distributed. The article also goes in detail about the certain ways information is provided on the internet that helps pull in web users which is mainly due to the 'digital culture'. The build and set up of a website and its ability to provide legit and accurate knowledge into web communities is another key point in the article. Who are the people that are researching, editing, posting and leaking out information onto these web search engines? And how are they connecting research found to every day people and situations. Dr. David creates a cloud of questions that we as web users are forced to think about, or try to answer. There is so much knowledge to be learned, but we must also be weary of what we read because there are so many sites that will make you believe that they sky is green and not blue. How do we separate truth from untruth? Every site has its own rules and regulations of how they report data and what if that function fails? Nowadays there are partnerships in where these sites are run by the consumers feedback or by "trading" which is used in the marketplace to collide ideas and thoughts of researchers and come up with the most accurate information before posting it on their website. Though Dr. David infers users to be weary of provided information on websites he also shows that these websites are usually on top of their game and quickly correct any false information. 

=**Ask yourself this:** = = = 1. How much do you check the accuracy of your research? 2. Do you believe everything in the media? And if not how you decipher between untruth? And untruths? 3. What role does media play in your life? 4. Have you ever went through the process of creating a website? What was it like? 5. Do you feel compelled to challenge, add, or edit everything you read? 6. Do you believe what Shay David is telling us in his articles or do you think it is more advertising and propaganda?

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 Paul Starr



Biography 

Paul Starr is a professor of Sociology at Princeton University. Starr is most recognized for winning the Pulitzer Prize for non fiction in 1984, with his book The Social Transformation of American Medicine. One very interesting thing about Paul Starr is that in 1993, he was the senior advisor for Bill Clinton's proposed health care reform plan. Back in 1990, Starr co-founded a liberal magazine about politics, called The American Prospect, along with Robert Kuttner and Robert Reich. The American Prospect is available monthly, as well as being online. Starr attended both Columbia University as well as Harvard University, where obtained his Ph.D.

America's First Information Revolution - Quick Facts

In Paul Starr's article "America's First Information Revolution" Starr brings up a few major contributions to this information revolution. Starr talks about the incorporation of the Post Office and newspapers into the United States. Newspapers were a great way for people to express their views on things such as politics. Many U.S. citizens were reading these newspapers, as Starr points out, saying there were 18-19 subscritions for every 100 households in the 1780's, compared to over 50 out of 100 in the 1820's. What the Post Office did, was it allwoed a much larger subscription base, and because of that, more newspapers began to develop. Starr talks about the whole idea of privacy in the Postal system, and it leads me to questions of just how much power should the government have over that kind of privacy? The government ensures postal privacy, but do you really trust that it is private? Starr also goes on to talk about a periodic census. The United States became the first nation to use a periodic census and then publish the findings. Soon people were getting concerned that the census was becoming too personal, therefore the government assured the information would be kept confidential. Here is a great interview I found to help you understand what the U.S. census is like today. It leads me to ask the question of how do you feel about the U.S. census today? What could make it better, if anything? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">

Paul Starr interview: Part 1......Part 2 <span style="color: #ff0009; font-family: Georgia,serif;">

What were your thoughts on the interview? Did you agree with what Paul Starr had to say? Why or why not?

With Starr focusing so much on the Post Office, what do you make of Obama's recent comments regarding how the Post Office is in trouble? What do you think is contributing to it, and do you think it has anything to do with any of the confidentiality issues that Starr was discussing?