Wisdom of the crowd or technicity of content? Wikipedia as a sociotechnical system
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12656151 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sabine Niederer (0000-0002-2074-9567, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands,, corresponding author), José Van Dijck (0000-0003-0499-9045, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands,, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1368-1387 |
| Publication date | 2010-07-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Media & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-4448 • E-ISSN: 1461-7315 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1461444810365297 |
| OpenAlex | W2103152872 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 71 |
| References cited | 17 |
Wikipedia is often considered as an example of ‘collaborative knowledge’. Researchers have contested the value of Wikipedia content on various accounts. Some have disputed the ability of anonymous amateurs to produce quality information, while others have contested Wikipedia’s claim to accuracy and neutrality. Even if these concerns about Wikipedia as an encyclopaedic genre are relevant, they misguidedly focus on human agents only. Wikipedia’s advance is not only enabled by its human resources, but is equally defined by the technological tools and managerial dynamics that structure and maintain its content. This article analyses the sociotechnical system — the intricate collaboration between human users and automated content agents — that defines Wikipedia as a knowledge instrument
Content (measure theory · Epistemology · Focus (optics · Knowledge management · Quality (philosophy · Sociology · Sociotechnical system · Value (mathematics · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Rights Management and Security · Social Media and Politics · Wikis in Education and Collaboration
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Audiences’ Coping Practices with Intrusive Interfaces
Making Games
Inventing the Social
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The Culture of Connectivity
The Gender Divide in Wikipedia
Wikipédia Em Língua Portuguesa
Twitter reacts to absence of women on Wikipedia
Controversy goes online
(Re)Platforming subcultures
Armchair detectives and the social construction of falsehoods
What is a meme, technically speaking
Capability in the digital
Wikipedia
Temporal patterns of scientific information-seeking on Google and Wikipedia
What do we know about public attitudes towards experts? Reviewing survey data in the United Kingdom and European Union
Four Internets
Algorithmuskulturen
Paradoxe Dynamik. Aktivismus zwischen Anonymität und Sichtbarkeit
Tagging Culture
The European encyclopaedia from 1650 to the twenty-first century
The Western Far Right and Digital Technology
Want to be on the top? Algorithmic power and the threat of invisibility on Facebook
Decoding revision mechanisms in Wikipedia
Becoming an ideal co-creator
Ms. Categorized
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Algorithmic Distortion of Informational Landscapes
The Organization of Digital Platforms
Exploring Online Engagement in Public Policy Consultation
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The Politics of Real-time
The Different Artificial Intelligences of Science and Wikipedia
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Deconstructing the cloud
Becoming Red-Pilled
Follow the user
Masses, Crowds, Communities, Movements
The discursive construction and performance of gendered identity on social media
Crowdsourcing Knowledge Interdiscursive Flows from Wikipedia into Scholarly Research
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The Redistribution of Methods
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The Wealth of Networks
Convergence Culture
The End of the Virtual
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An empirical examination of Wikipedia's credibility
Early response to false claims in Wikipedia
Open Source Intelligence
The Orbiten free software survey
Cultural Differences in Collaborative Authoring of Wikipedia
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Technology is Society Made Durable
| Unique citing works | 71 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,44 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 68 |