"A natural initial question is what is open source software? Roughly, being open source requires that the source code, and not only the object code (the sequence of 1's and 0's that computers actually use), be made available to everyone, and that the modifications made by its users also be turned back to the community."(Lerner & Tirole, 2001).

Lerner, J., & Tirole, J. (2001). The open source movement: Key research questions. European economic review, 45(4-6), 819-826.

https://hypothes.is/groups/x4RQA5XX/edci-338-a01-summer-2024

Mentions standards to assess but not standards for interaction on either side

Goes further to say it is your responsibility to hold power accountable and media is the platform on which you can question and challenge power.

Transparency is a key feature of both education and now policing and something the medical profession is attempting to achieve to build trust around data collection. The accountability feature of democracy is the strongest feature media has when speaking to power.

A second, seemingly more advanced version with an element of social responsibility that the power of media is used for altruistic reasons.

It is seen as a necessity for making the invisible visible, but the ramifications of world wide attention of typically invisible things is often unknown and unprecedented

Multiplatform meaning capable of running on two or more running hardware platforms (windows and desktop), however for marketing purposes it also includes channels and to promote products or services. It involves creating and distributing content across different online and offline platforms simultaneously, targeting various demographics and consumer touchpoints. Digital describes electronic technology that generates, stores and processes data in terms of positive and nonpositive states. Finally democracy meaning ruled by the people to make decisions

disruptive typically means to cause trouble and stop something from continuing as usual, so it is interesting to have disruption positioned publicly as something that is to be embraced.

Not all undesirable attributes are at issue, but only those which are incongruous with our stereotype of what a given type of individual should be (Goffman, 1963, p. 12).

Goffman, E. (1963). Stigma Notes on the management of spoiled identity.

How does the stigmatized person respond to his situation? In some cases it will be possible for him to make a direct attempt to correct what he sees as the objective basis of his failing, as when a physically deformed person undergoes plastic surgery, a blind person eye treatment, an illiterate remedial education, a homosexual psychotherapy (Goffman, 1963, p. 18).

Goffman, E. (1963). Stigma Notes on the management of spoiled identity.

Also, it seems possible for an individual to fail to live up to what we effectively demand of him, and yet be relatively untouched by this failure: insulated by his alienation, protected by identity beliefs of his own, he feels that he is a full-fledged normal human being, and that we are the ones who are not quite human (Goffman, 1963, p. 16).

Goffman, E. (1963). Stigma Notes on the management of spoiled identity.