The Opportunities and Challenges of Wikipedia

ISBN-13: 9786205515389 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str.

Yilmaz Aliskan

Opis

The internet provides users with opportunities to create digital commons-based projects, which are based on collaborative production. Wikipedia is one of the most popular digital commons-based projects, in which tens of thousands of volunteer editors contribute this project. The internet users do not pay any money to access information/knowledge on Wikipedia. The other important point is that personal information of users is not sold by Wikipedia to third parties. Also, it has a huge data storage that enables users to find a great range of information although the reliability of content of Wikipedia is controversial. In short, Wikipedia is a good sample to analyze a digital commons project that are against the commodification of information/knowledge on the internet.Primary source of this book comes from the interviews I did at the University of Sussex in the UK. I benefited from thematic analysis in the process of data analyzing and categorization. The themes of the findings are: Free access to information/knowledge on the Internet; Popularity and Reliability of Wikipedia; Surveillance and Advertisements.

O autorze

The author received his master degree in 2015 and his PhD degree in 2021 in the field of Media and Cultural Studies from the University of Sussex. He is currently a lecturer at Dicle University in Turkey. His research interests include digital commons projects, hacker culture and digital media.