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Common Knowledge?: An Ethnography of Wikipedia

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Description for Common Knowledge?: An Ethnography of Wikipedia Hardback. .

With an emphasis on peer–produced content and collaboration, Wikipedia exemplifies a departure from traditional management and organizational models. This iconic "project" has been variously characterized as a hive mind and an information revolution, attracting millions of new users even as it has been denigrated as anarchic and plagued by misinformation. Have Wikipedia's structure and inner workings promoted its astonishing growth and enduring public relevance?

In Common Knowledge?, Dariusz Jemielniak draws on his academic expertise and years of active participation within the Wikipedia community to take readers inside the site, illuminating how it functions and deconstructing its distinctive organization. Against a ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804789448
SKU
V9780804789448
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About Dariusz Jemielniak
Dariusz Jemielniak is Professor of Management at Kozminski University in Warsaw, Poland, where he heads the Center for Research on Organizations and Workplaces. Beyond academia, he is a heavily-engaged Wikipedian and was elected in 2015 to the Board of Trustees of WIkimedia Foundation

Reviews for Common Knowledge?: An Ethnography of Wikipedia
"Jemielniak confronts the fascinating politics of Wikipedia as an insider, relaying the healthy clash of cultures and values that ensues as people try to get it right. This is a wonderful, detailed account of Wikipedia's rules and hierarchies, culture of consensus, internal power structures, governance, and leadership—especially in its English and Polish incarnations."
Jonathan Zittrain
Harvard University and ... Read more

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