Transparency and social responsibility issues for Wikipedia

Ethics and Information Technology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 133-144

  Santana, Adele ^a   Wood, Donna J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate social responsibility; Ethics; Higher education; Information; Transparency; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES (CSR); ETHICS; HIGHER EDUCATION; INFORMATION; WIKIPEDIA;

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

TRANSPARENCY;

EID: 67349117304     PISSN: 13881957     EISSN: 15728439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10676-009-9193-y     Document Type: Article

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