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Systemic Bias In Wikipedia : What It Looks Like, And How To Deal With It, Laura Quilter
Systemic Bias In Wikipedia : What It Looks Like, And How To Deal With It, Laura Quilter
Laura Quilter
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Networked, Collaborative, And Activist News Communities Online: A Case Study Of Reddit And Daily Kos, Michael Soha
Networked, Collaborative, And Activist News Communities Online: A Case Study Of Reddit And Daily Kos, Michael Soha
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
Participatory democracy depends on formations of community and social relations, places and spaces for critical discourse, and the organizational and technical capacity for collective action. This study seeks to better understand how these processes are at work in the virtual realm, and more broadly examine the changing nature of political information and discourse in the online context. Toward this end, I examine two sites that embody different yet highly successful models of user participation, collective content production, and increasingly, political action: the political blogging community of Daily Kos and the social news site Reddit. This study is based on three …