To start off crowdsourcing is the practice of involving people or group for a common goal sometimes for innovation, problem solving, or efficiency. Its more of you do work but would not get fully paid or the credit for it. In the instance of the article “The Rise of Crowdsourcing“. Claudia Menashe needed pictures for a project, instead of hiring a photographer for thousands of dollars she decided to just to use stock photography. Stock photography is term for the publishing industry she was able to purchase about 56 photographs for about a dollar each but if she would have got the pictures through the real person who took them it would have been 4 photographs for 600 dollars. Crowdsourcing is changing the way of companies approaching creative content. The reason is they are practically buying content for much of a cheaper price rather or in other words paying for cheap labor when it should not be that way. In my perspective I think about it in the way as machines replacing humans in factories. A company fires their employees and saves money since a machine can do the job of three. Back to the “The Rise of Crowdsourcing” one issues about crowdsourcing was that the line between professionals and amateurs was blurring. As in many media companies think if they should hire for ethnic professional work or work people summit on their websites since many would willing do it for free.
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