Book ID: CBB207435019

Writing the Revolution: Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital Age (2022)

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Ford, Heather (Author)


MIT Press


Publication Date: 2022
Physical Details: 184
Language: English

Wikipedia bills itself as an encyclopedia built on neutrality, authority, and crowd-sourced consensus. Platforms like Google and digital assistants like Siri distribute Wikipedia's facts widely, further burnishing its veneer of impartiality. But as Heather Ford demonstrates in Writing the Revolution, the facts that appear on Wikipedia are often the result of protracted power struggles over how data are created and used, how history is written and by whom, and the very definition of facts in a digital age. In Writing the Revolution, Ford looks critically at how the Wikipedia article about the 2011 Egyptian Revolution evolved over the course of a decade, both shaping and being shaped by the Revolution as it happened. When data are published in real time, they are subject to an intense battle over their meaning across multiple fronts. Ford answers key questions about how Wikipedia's so-called consensus is arrived at; who has the power to write dominant histories and which knowledges are actively rejected; how these battles play out across the chains of circulation in which data travel; and whether history is now written by algorithms.

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Authors & Contributors
Jessa Lingel
Moats, David
Joanna Partyka
Astrid Mignon Kirchhof
Tom Kane
Con Diaz, Gerardo
Concepts
Technology and society
Internet
Wikipedia
Computers and computing
Open access
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
Early modern
Modern
20th century
Places
United States
Americas
Poland
Europe
Institutions
Galaxy Zoo
Facebook (firm)
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