Seeing the world like Wikipedia – what you should know about how the world’s largest encyclopedia works.

McDowell, Zachary J. and Vetter, Matthew A. (2021) Seeing the world like Wikipedia – what you should know about how the world’s largest encyclopedia works. Impact of Social Sciences Blog (18 Nov 2021). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

Wikipedia has become focal point in the way in which information is accessed and communicated within modern societies. In this post, Zachary J. McDowell and Matthew A. Vetter discuss the principles that have enabled Wikipedia to assume this position and how at the same time these governing principles, formulated early in the Wikipedia project, have embedded particular forms of knowledge production and biases within the platform.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/
Additional Information:	© 2021 The Authors
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > ZA Information resources
Date Deposited:	18 Jan 2022 14:03
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 11:20
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/113099

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