Beyond vandalism: Wikipedia trolls

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 357-370

  Shachaf, Pnina ^a   Hara, Noriko ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community; Hackers; Trolls; Vandalism; Wiki; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY IS; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; WIKIPEDIA;

COMPUTER CRIME;

PERSONAL COMPUTING;

EID: 77953009688     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551510365390     Document Type: Article

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