The entanglement of trust and knowledge on the Web

Ethics and Information Technology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 343-355

  Simon, Judith ^a  

^a INSTITUT JEAN NICOD   (France)

Author keywords

Algorithmic authority; Epistemic practices; Knowledge; Recommender systems; Socio technical epistemic systems; Trust; Web; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMIC AUTHORITY; EPISTEMIC PRACTICES; KNOWLEDGE; SOCIOTECHNICAL; TRUST; WEB; WIKIPEDIA;

ALGORITHMS; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

TRANSPARENCY;

EID: 78149499456     PISSN: 13881957     EISSN: 15728439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10676-010-9243-5     Document Type: Article

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