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Book review: Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia by Joseph Michael Reagle Jr.

Book review: Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia by Joseph Michael Reagle Jr.

With 19 million articles Wikipedia is the biggest and most popular encyclopedia that has been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Since its launch in July 2001 it has been the object of research. In 2010 computer scientist...
By Liselotte Doorduijn on 09/20/11 0

Knowledge, not the way you knew it: Studying the impact of Wikipedia on the reception of knowledge

This is part of the final paper I submitted for the course “Culture of Spectacle” 17.000.000 articles. 91.000 active contributors. 270 languages. No matter what words one would choose to describe Wikipedia, numbers cannot speak but the truth: Wikipedia,...
By Ilektra Pavlaki on 06/13/11 1