It seems like Web 2.0 and wikis are becoming academics worst nightmare. Not only do they have to compete with easy access to information through Wikipedia, but they have to adapt once again to new forms of interaction online. To be honest, I find Wikipedia to be useful in looking up information quick and to get the general idea. If I am thoroughly researching something for a paper, documentary, or other academic purpose... I am going to look for a greater range of sources. I think the things people are able to assemble on Wikipedia such as the Star Wars wiki, is incredibly impressive given the amount of effort and time that has been put into them. Sure, these articles might not have relevance to furthering your academic knowledge, but they are interesting to read. This is something I find is usually the case with so-called Web 2.0 sites like Wikipedia, Youtube, blogs and Facebook, which is that they are more about entertainment than gaining fundamental knowledge. It is a way to spend your time online that I think the critics think is wasteful when they could be looking through some official federal release material or scholarly articles on subjects.
I think Web 2.0 and Wikipedia would be accepted by some media critics like who feel that people are using Youtube and Wikipedia to create new media or put something out there on the internet that hasn't been done before. I honestly don't think that as time goes on that people will only rely on the internet, in particular Wikipedia and Web 2.0 sites to gather their information. These sites will be more of an outlet from "hard news and information" sites to look at in terms of entertainment.
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