Should You Believe Wikipedia?

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-108-74840-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 335 g

As we interact online we are creating new kinds of knowledge and community. How are these communities formed? How do we know whether to trust them as sources of information? In other words, Should we believe Wikipedia? This book explores what community is, what knowledge is, how the internet facilitates new kinds of community, and how knowledge is shaped through online collaboration and conversation. Along the way the author tackles issues such as how we represent ourselves online and how this shapes how we interact, why there is so much bad behavior online and what we can do about it. And the most important question of all: What can we as internet users and designers do to help the internet to bring out the best in us all?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bruckman, Amy S.

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Digital Lifestyle Internet, E-Mail, Social Media
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein Soziale und ethische Aspekte der EDV
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Wissensmanagement

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Are online “communities” really communities?; 2. What can online collaboration accomplish?; 3. Should you believe Wikipedia?; 4. How does the internet change how we think?; 5. How do people express identity online, and why is this important for online interaction?; 6. What is bad online behavior, and what can we do about it?; 7. How do business models shape online communities?; 8. How can we help the internet to bring out the best in us all?

Über Autor(innen)

Bruckman, Amy S.
Amy S. Bruckman is Regents' Professor and Senior Associate Chair in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology where she studies online communities. Bruckman received her Ph.D. from the MIT Media Lab in 1997. She is a Fellow of The ACM and a member of the SIGCHI Academy. She founded her first online community in 1993, and has been teaching the class 'Design of Online Communities' at Georgia Tech since 1998. She currently helps moderate a number of large online communities.