Should You Believe Wikipedia Online Communities and the Construction of Knowledge

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As we interact online we are creating new kinds of knowledge and community. How are these communities formed? How do we know whether to trust them as sources of information? In other words, Should we believe Wikipedia? This book explores what community is, what knowledge is, how the internet facilitates new kinds of community, and how knowledge is shaped through online collaboration and conversation. Along the way the author tackles issues such as how we represent ourselves online and how this shapes how we interact, why there is so much bad behavior online and what we can do about it. And the most important question of all: What can we as internet users and designers do to help the internet to bring out the best in us all?

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781108748407
Published: February 2022

Number of pages: 272
Width: 128 mm
Height: 197 mm
Depth: 15 mm

Publisher: Cambridge University Press