Wikipedia, sociology, and the promise and pitfalls of Big Data
Wikipedia is an important instance of “Big Data,” both because it shapes people's frames of reference and because it is a window into the construction—including via crowd-sourcing—of new bodies of knowledge. Based on our own research as well as others' critical and ethnographic work, we ta...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2015-12-01
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Series: | Big Data & Society |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951715614332 |