"Writing up rather than writing down": Becoming Wikipedia literate

WikiSym 2012 Conference Proceedings - 8th Annual International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Ford, Heather ^a   Geiger, R Stuart ^b  

^a Ushahidi ^*  (United States)

^b UC Berkeley School of Information   (United States)

Author keywords

educational technology; ethnography; literacy; new literacies; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

ETHNOGRAPHY; LITERACY; MEDIAWIKI; NEW LITERACIES; ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS; QUALITATIVE STUDY; WIKIPEDIA;

EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84877619845     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2462932.2462954     Document Type: Conference Paper

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