Wikipedia U : Knowledge, Authority, and Liberal Education in the Digital Age /

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Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia has been a lightning rod for debates about knowledge and traditional authority. It has come under particular scrutiny from publishers of print encyclopedias and college professors, who are skeptical about whether a crowd-sourced encyclopedia -- in which most entri...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Leitch, Thomas M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Wikipedia.
Research > Methodology > Data processing.
Education, Humanistic.
EDUCATION > Reference.
EDUCATION > Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION > Essays.
Recherche > Methodologie > Informatique.
Éducation humaniste.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. The Battle of the Books
  • Origin Stories
  • Paradoxes of Authority
  • The Case against Wikipedia
  • Playing the Encyclopedia Game
  • Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
  • Appendix. Excercises for Exploring Wikipedia and Authority.

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