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Shirky And Sanger, Or The Costs Of Crowdsourcing, Mathieu O'Neil
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expertise with collective production; others believe that traditional expertise's focus on correctness has been superseded by the affordances of digital networking, such as re-use and verifiability.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
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
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.