The perspectives of higher education faculty on Wikipedia

The Electronic Library

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 361-373

  Chen, Hsin liang ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic media; Encyclopaedias; Higher education; Information research; Search engines; Teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953266052     PISSN: 02640473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02640471011051954     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Anthony, D., Smith, S.W. and Williamson, T. (2005), “Explaining quality in Internet collective goods: Zealots and good Samaritans in the case of Wikipedia”, available at: http://web.mit.edu/iandeseminar/Papers/Fall2005/anthony.pdf (accessed August 11, 2009).
2. Applegate, R. (2006), “Faculty information assignments: a longitudinal examination of variations in survey results”, The Journal of Academic Librarianship, Vol. 32 No. 4, pp. 355-63.
3. Ayers, P. (2006), “Researching Wikipedia: current approaches and new directions”, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Austin, TX.
4. Borgman, C. (2000), From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in the Networked World, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
5. Brändle, A. (2005), “Too many cooks don't spoil the broth”, Wikipedia 2005, Frankfurt, Germany, available at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Transwiki:Wikimania05/Paper-AB1 (accessed August 11, 2009).
6. Case, D.O. (2005), “Principle of least effort”, in Fisher, K.E., Erdelez, S. and McKechnie, L. (Eds), Theories of Information Behavior, Information Today, Medford, NJ, pp. 289-92.
7. Chen, H. (2009), “The use and sharing of information from Wikipedia by high-tech professionals for work purposes”, The Electronic Library, Vol. 27 No. 6, pp. 893-905.
8. Chesney, T. (2006), “An empirical examination of Wikipedia's credibility”, First Monday, Vol. 11 No. 11, available at: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_11/chesney/index.html (accessed March 19, 2007).
9. Chronicle of Higher Education (2007), “Essjay, the ersatz academic”, available at: http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=1909 (accessed March 5, 2007).
10. Cohen, N. (2007), “Courts turn to Wikepedia, but selectively”, available at: www.nytimes.com/2007/01/29/technology/29wikipedia.html?ex=1186632000&en=1801e5d667ac404b&ei=5070 (accessed August 11, 2009).
11. Damodaran, L. and Olphert, W. (2006), Informing Digital Future: Strategies for Citizen Engagement, Springer, Dordrecht.
12. Duguid, P. (2006), “Limits of self-organization: peer production and law of quality”, First Monday, Vol. 10 No. 11, available at: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_10/duguid/index.html (accessed July 6, 2007).
13. Edmonds, K.A., Blustein, J. and Turnbull, D. (2006), “A personal information and knowledge infrastructure”, Journal of Digital Information, Vol. 5 No. 1, available at: http://jodi.tamu.edu/Articles/v05/i01/Edmonds/ (accessed October 18, 2007).
14. Emigh, W. and Herring, S.C. (2004), “Collaborative authoring on the web: a genre analysis of online encyclopedia”, Proceedings of the 39th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, available at: http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/∼herring/wiki.pdf (accessed August 9, 2007).
15. Feather, J. (2003), “Theoretical perspectives on the information society”, in Hornby, S. and Clarke, Z. (Eds), Challenge and Change in the Information Society, Facet Publishing, London, pp. 3-17.
16. Gullikson, S. (2006), “Faculty perceptions of ACRL's information literacy competency standards for higher education”, The Journal of Academic Librarianship, Vol. 32 No. 6, pp. 583-92.
17. Lally, A.M. and Dunford, C.E. (2007), “Using Wikipedia to extend digital collections”, D-Lib, Vol. 13 Nos 5/6, available at: www.dlib.org/dlib/may07/lally/05lally.html (accessed July 6, 2007).
18. Nizza, M. (2007), Life, Liberty and Wikipedia, available at: http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/03/22/life-liberty-and-wikipedia/ (accessed March 22, 2007).
19. Nov, O. (2007), “What motivates Wikipedians?”, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 50 No. 11, pp. 60-4.
20. Read, B. (2006), “Can Wikipedia ever make the grade?” Available at: http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i10/10a03101.htm (accessed August 11, 2009).
21. Rothbauer, P. (2005), “Practice of everyday life”, in Fisher, K.E., Erdelez, S. and McKechnie, L. (Eds), Theories of Information Behavior, Information Today, Medford, NJ, pp. 284-8.
22. Savolainen, R. (2005), “Everyday life information seeking”, in Fisher, K.E., Erdelez, S. and McKechnie, L. (Eds), Theories of Information Behavior, Information Today, Medford, NJ, pp. 143-8.
23. Shen, Y. (2007), “Information seeking in academic research: a study of the Sociology Faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison”, Information Technology and Libraries, March.
24. Spoerri, A. (2007), “What is popular on Wikipedia and why?”, First Monday, Vol. 12 No. 4, available at: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_4/spoerri2/index.htm (accessed July 6, 2007).
25. Stevens, C. (2006), “Beyond preaching to the choir: information literacy, faculty outreach, and disciplinary journals”, The Journal of Academic Librarianship, Vol. 33 No. 2, pp. 254-67.
26. Tapscott, D. and Williams, A.D. (2006), Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, Portfolio, New York, NY.
27. Tumlin, M., Harris, S., R,., Buchanan, H., Schmidt, K. and Johnson, K. (2007), “Collectivism vs. individualism in a Wiki world: librarians respond to Jaron Lanier's essay Digital Maoism: the hazards of the new online collectivism”, Serial Review, Vol. 33 No. 1, pp. 45-53.
28. Viegas, F.B., Wattenberg, M., Kriss, J. and van Ham, F. (2007), “Talk before you type: coordinate in Wikipedia”, Proceedings of the 40th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 3-6, 2, Big Island, pp. 1-10.
29. Voos, J. (2005), “Measuring Wikipedia”, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informatics, 24-28 July, Stockholm, available at: http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00003610 (accessed August 9, 2007).
30. (The) Wall Street Journal (2007), “Full text: Keen vs. Weinberger”, available at: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118460229729267677.html (accessed August 11, 2009).
31. Waters, N.L. (2007), “Why you can't cite Wikipedia in my class”, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 50 No. 9, pp. 15-17.
32. Weber, M. and Flatley, R. (2006), “What do faculty want? A focus group study of faculty at a mid-sized public university”, Library Philosophy and Practice, Vol. 9 No. 1, pp. 1-8.
33. Wilkinson, D. and Huberman, B.A. (2007), “Assessing the values of cooperation in Wikipedia”, First Monday, Vol. 12 No. 4, available at: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_4/wilkinson/index.html (accessed July 6, 2007).
34. Willinsky, J. (2007), “What open access research can do for Wikiepdia”, First Monday, Vol. 12 No. 3, available at: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_3/willinsky/index.html (accessed July 6, 2007).
35. Xu, Y. and Meyei, K. (2007), “Factors explaining faculty technology use and productivity”, The Internet and Higher Education, Vol. 10 No. 1, pp. 41-52.