Harnessing the Power of Collaborative Filtering. Comparing the Network Gatekeeping of Baidu Baike and Chinese Wikipedia
Authors | Han-Teng Liao |
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Publication date | 2015 |
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Harnessing the Power of Collaborative Filtering. Comparing the Network Gatekeeping of Baidu Baike and Chinese Wikipedia - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2015, written by Han-Teng Liao.
Overview
China’s Internet development raises questions on the interplay of user autonomy and Internet governance in the larger Chinese-language online cultural sphere. To what extent has user autonomy been established to conduct information gatekeeping collaboratively online? To examine how the power of Chinese-language Internet users has been harnessed in relation to the filtering and censorship regime, the article applies the concept of “network gatekeeping” to analyse two major user-generated websites, Chinese Wikipedia and Baidu Baike, as different examples of collaborative filtering projects. Effectively they share “word-of-mouth” recommendations on encyclopaedic knowledge and information by user-contributors to edit content from different parts of the world. Two salient network gatekeeping mechanisms have emerged: the censorship mechanisms in Baidu Baike and internationalisation/localisation mechanisms in Chinese Wikipedia. The findings show a contrast between the two interaction patterns, indicating mainland-centric versus transnational Chinese gatekeeping processes employing different kinds of collaborative filtering and different levels of user autonomy.
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Liao, Han-Teng. (2015). "[[Harnessing the Power of Collaborative Filtering. Comparing the Network Gatekeeping of Baidu Baike and Chinese Wikipedia]]". French Centre for Research on Contemporary China.
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Liao, Han-Teng. (2015). "<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Harnessing_the_Power_of_Collaborative_Filtering._Comparing_the_Network_Gatekeeping_of_Baidu_Baike_and_Chinese_Wikipedia">Harnessing the Power of Collaborative Filtering. Comparing the Network Gatekeeping of Baidu Baike and Chinese Wikipedia</a>". French Centre for Research on Contemporary China.