Web 2.0: Consistency, Relevancy and Reliability
With all of the hype surrounding Web 2.0 in 2005, now seems like a good idea to examine its implications for health and mental health online. Do Web 2.0 services, such as Flickr and Del.icio.us, bring a new paradigm to understand and leverage for online health? Or are they valuable individual services that suffer from lack of consistency when tasked with providing the larger Internet populace with useful information? Is tagging a solution to the problem of “too much information,” or one possible solution that comes with its own problems??
Dr. John Grohol is the CEO and founder of Psych Central. He is an author, researcher and expert in mental health online, and has been writing about online behavior, mental health and psychology issues -- as well as the intersection of technology and human behavior -- since 1992. Dr. Grohol sits on the editorial board of the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking and is a founding board member and treasurer of the Society for Participatory Medicine.Like this author?
Catch up on other posts by John M. Grohol, PsyD (or subscribe to their feed).
Comments
This post currently has no comments. You can read the comments or leave your own thoughts on our new comments page.
Trackbacks
Last reviewed: By John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on 25 Feb 2006
Published on PsychCentral.com. All rights reserved.
APA Reference
Grohol, J. (2006). Web 2.0: Consistency, Relevancy and Reliability. Psych Central. Retrieved on May 25, 2012, from http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2006/02/25/web-20-consistency-relevancy-and-reliability/
Grohol, J. (2006). Web 2.0: Consistency, Relevancy and Reliability. Psych Central. Retrieved on May 25, 2012, from http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2006/02/25/web-20-consistency-relevancy-and-reliability/
