Crowdsourcing as a Modern Model of Exchange and Management of Information in the Online Media

Abstract

The article deals with modern trends in crowdsourcing ways of information excange and direction in network mass media. The author explaines the reason of popularity crowdsourcing ideas in the Internet journalism. The author also dwells on the most popular types of crowdsourcing, such as crowd searching, crowd creation, crowd funding and crowd voting - they allow to concentrate and coordinate crowdsourcing activity in net editions. The author focuses her attention on disadvantages which are connected with direction of this technology and offers several ways of solution of these issues.