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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Julia Adams, Hannah Brückner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2015-12-01
Series:Big Data & Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951715614332