Wisdom of the crowd or technicity of content? Wikipedia as a sociotechnical system

New Media and Society

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1368-1387

  Niederer, Sabine ^a   van Dijck, José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

collaborative knowledge; protocol; sociotechnical system; Web 2.0; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650273195     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444810365297     Document Type: Article

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