The collaborative construction of 'fact' on wikipedia

SIGDOC'09 - Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 281-288

  Swarts, Jason ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fact creation; Participation; Power and negotiation; Wiki; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE CONSTRUCTION; COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCES; WEB 2.0; WIKIPEDIA; WORK ACTIVITIES;

EID: 70450198653     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1621995.1622051     Document Type: Conference Paper

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