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Shirky And Sanger, Or The Costs Of Crowdsourcing, Mathieu O'Neil Mar 2010

Shirky And Sanger, Or The Costs Of Crowdsourcing, Mathieu O'Neil

Mathieu O'Neil

Online knowledge production sites do not rely on isolated experts but on collaborative processes, on the wisdom of the group or “crowd”. Some authors have argued that it is possible to combine traditional or credentialled expertise with collective production; others believe that traditional expertise's focus on correctness has been superseded by the affordances of digital networking, such as re-use and verifiability. This paper examines the costs of two kinds of “crowdsourced” encyclopedic projects: Citizendium, based on the work of credentialled and identified experts, faces a recruitment deficit; in contrast Wikipedia has proved wildly popular, but anti-credentialism and anonymity result in …


Radical Tribes At Warre: Primitivists On The Net, Mathieu O'Neil Jun 2008

Radical Tribes At Warre: Primitivists On The Net, Mathieu O'Neil

Mathieu O'Neil

No abstract provided.


Les Paradoxes D’Une Dissidence Californienne: Les « Zines » De La San Francisco Bay Area (1980-1995), Mathieu O'Neil Sep 2004

Les Paradoxes D’Une Dissidence Californienne: Les « Zines » De La San Francisco Bay Area (1980-1995), Mathieu O'Neil

Mathieu O'Neil

No abstract provided.