<CPOV> fyi new media & society,13(5) 704–721

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Summary of the (paywalled) paper in the Wikipedia Signpost:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-01-31/In_the_news#What_is_the_Wikipedia_.22community.22.3F

Regards, HaeB

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Jeanette Hofmann <jeanette at wzb.eu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> the whole issue looks quite interesting.
>
>
> Imagining the Wikipedia community: What do Wikipedia authors mean when they
> write about their ‘community’?
>
> Christian Pentzold
> Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
>
> new media & society
> 13(5) 704–721
>
>
>
> Abstract
> This article examines the way Wikipedia authors write their ‘community’ into
> being.
> Mobilizing concepts regarding the communicative constitution of communities,
> the
> computer-mediated conversation between editors were investigated using
> Grounded
> Theory procedures. The analysis yielded an empirically grounded theory of
> the users’
> self-understanding of the Wikipedia community as ethos-action community.
> Hence, this
> study contributes to research on online community-building as it shifts the
> focus from
> structural criteria for communities to the discursive level of community
> formation.
>
> jeanette
>
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