Academics and Wikipedia: Reframing Web 2.0+as a disruptor of traditional academic power-knowledge arrangements

Campus-Wide Information Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 173-185

  Eijkman, Henk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Academic staff; Higher education; Knowledge management; Worldwide web

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954237649     PISSN: 10650741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10650741011054474     Document Type: Article

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