When it comes to content, we affiliate it as an open source of information for audiences to explore and articulate. However this is not the case with the ideological construct of “The Cathedral”.
This “Cathedral” examines production and user access connected to a limiting visibility to a select number of users in its characterisation. “Cathedrals” much like in terms of religion are dedicated to religious-specific practices resonates with permissions and ideologies surrounding the flow of content across multiple media platforms. This same behaviour is reflected through the selection of visibility to specific online consumers.
As a results, only selected users are permitted to continue.
In relation to this topic, the following remediation reflects this week’s lecture and how “The Cathedral” is carefully crafted by individual wizards… with no beta to be released before its time.
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Hi Jonathon,
I like your analogy of the cathedral having religious leaders, and these people in power possessing influence over all the other users. Quite a perceptive analysis! These religious leaders, as you allude in your post, may even exist within the platform itself, which further lends to the appropriateness of your explanation.
As for your remediation, the idea of a wizard behind the scenes “pulling the strings” in a closed hardware platform is a good way to depict the control relationship between the creators and users.
As another element that was explored this week was closed vs open source platforms, a video that you may like to also check out is https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a8fHgx9mE5U
Anyway, good job man!
-Josh 🙂
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Your analysis of the ‘cathedral’ is quite good (but comes across a little confusing to read with word choice). This analysis would have been clearer for someone who had no knowledge of this topic if the concept of the bazaar had of been explored to contrast the idea of the cathedral. I read an interesting article that explained that whilst the bazaar in concept seems preferable over the cathedral approach, some actually prefer to use a platform which allows a limited freedom as this translates into greater safety and better quality (i.e apples App Store has stricter guidelines than Playstore which generally results in less junk).
The article: https://www.cultofmac.com/329381/app-store-vs-google-play-is-it-time-apple-stopped-being-a-control-freak/
Overall, good job!
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Jonathon,
I think that your analogy between the cathedral (the church) and controllers of the content we see is a very good one. Just like in social media platforms we may use, cathedrals have religious leaders that pick and choose what information we do and do not see, which can be very frustrating. In contrast, religious leaders are appointed by a general body, where the leaders of the platforms we use are not appointed or elected. Do you think the way platforms are used or operated would change if we could elect those that run them? Just something to think about. Here’s a link about how much platforms like social media applications take from their users, I think you may find it useful as it relates to your conversation.
https://t.co/S8j0n88nKN
Really liked the post,
– Jacob
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