Naslov
Towards a Mediated Center in the Network Society: Social construction of knowledge on and with Wikipedia

Autori
Bilić, Paško

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
The 47th Annual Canadian Sociological Association (CSA) Conference Book of Abstracts / - , 2012

Skup
The 47th Annual Canadian Sociological Association (CSA) Conference organized in conjunction with the Canadian Federation for Social Sciences and Humanities (CFHSS)

Mjesto i datum
Waterloo, Kanada, 29.05.2012. - 02.06.2012

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
The myth of the mediated centre; network society; social construction of knowledge; Wikipedia

Sažetak
The notion of knowledge in the 21st century has dramatically changed through new communication technologies. At the forefront of these changes is Wikipedia: with regard to how people find and use information online to construct their sense of social reality ; and in specific ways this knowledge is created on a web-based collaborative project. Wikipedia aspires to become ˝the sum of all human knowledge˝ but beyond the ever present questions of information quality, this presentation will deal with the processes of knowledge construction on and with Wikipedia. Starting from the argument raised by Nick Couldry that mass media rituals create a “myth of the mediated centre” or constructed centre of society and reality, I argue that through a set of technological preconditions and social norms, values and policies rising from the routinization of content production process, Wikipedia has moved from an obscure experimental project to an important node in the networked communication model. It has become a significant mediated centre for knowledge production, dissemination and consumption in the network society. Wikipedia articles are not finished products but instead procedures of knowledge construction through intense processes of negotiation, conflict and consensus matched by equally unstable and shifting consumption patterns of internet users.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija

Napomena
Rad je proglašen najboljim studenskim radom Kanadske sociološke asocijacije u 2012. godini

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