Global Wikipedia
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-8108-9101-2 (ISBN)
Global Wikipedia: International and Cross-Cultural Issues in Online Collaboration is the first book to address this gap by focusing attention on the global, multilingual, and multicultural aspects of Wikipedia. The editors showcase research on Wikipedia, exploring a wide range of international and cross-cultural issues. Online global collaboration, coordination, and conflict management are examined in this rich socio technical environment.
Special emphases include
·International and cross-cultural collaboration;
·Intercultural synergy on Wikimedia;
·Conflict and collaboration in editing international entries;
·Case studies of Chinese, Finnish, French, and Greek Wikipedias; and,
·Cross-cultural studies that compare more than one Wikipedia, focusing on content, structures, policies, contributions, interactions, processes, motivations, and challenges.
Pnina Fichman is an Associate Professor in the School of Informatics and Computing and the Director of the Rob Kling Center of Social Informatics. Her research in social informatics focuses the interaction between ICTs and cultural diversity, and the consequences and impacts of this interaction on group process and outcomes, the perception of and reaction to online deviant behaviors, such as trolling and discrimination, and the processes and outcomes of online communities and virtual teams. Her publications appeared in Information and Management, Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, Journal of Information Science and other venues. She earned her Ph.D. from SILS UNC in 2003. Noriko Hara is an Associate Professor in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University Bloomington. Her research examines the means by which collective behaviors—including knowledge sharing, online mobilization, and communities of practice—are enabled and/or impeded by information technology, and is rooted in the social informatics perspective. She is the author of Communities of Practice: Fostering Peer-to-Peer Learning and Informal Knowledge Sharing. Her publications have appeared in Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, Information, Communication & Society, The Information Society, and Instructional Science among others.
Introduction
Chapter 1: Immaterial Editors: Bots and Bot Policies Across Global Wikipedia by
Randall Livingstone
Chapter 2: The Most Controversial Topics In Wikipedia: A Multilingual And Geographical Analysis
Taha Yasseri, Anselm Spoerri, Mark Graham, and János Kertész
Chapter 3: Our News, Their Events: A Comparison of Archived Current Events on English and Greek Wikipedia
Jahna Ottenbacher
Chapter 4: Cross-linguistic Neutrality: Wikipedia's Neutral Points of Views from a global perspective
Ewa Callahan
Chapter 5: Gender Gap In Wikipedia Editing: A Cross-Language Comparison
Paolo Massa, Asta Zelenkauskaite
Chapter 6: Knowledge Sharing on Wikimedia Embassies
Pnina Fichman, Noriko Hara
Chapter 7: Constructing local heroes – collaborative narratives of Finnish corporations in Salla-Maaria Laaksonen, Merja Porttikivi
Chapter 8: The political economy of the Chinese copycats of Wikipedia
Gehao Zhang
Chapter 10: Contributing to Wikipedia: A Question of Gender
Hélène Bourdeloie, Michaël Vicente
Index
About the Contributors
About the Editors
Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 162 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 395 g |
Themenwelt | Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8108-9101-8 / 0810891018 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8108-9101-2 / 9780810891012 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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