Ways of Worldmaking in Wikipedia: Reality, Legitimacy and Collaborative Knowledge Making

Ways of Worldmaking in Wikipedia: Reality, Legitimacy and Collaborative Knowledge Making

Authors	Lindsay Fullerton James S. Ettema
Publication date	2014
DOI	10.1177/0163443713515739
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Ways of Worldmaking in Wikipedia: Reality, Legitimacy and Collaborative Knowledge Making - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2014, written by Lindsay Fullerton and James S. Ettema.

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The on-going social construction of reality, according to Berger and Luckmann’s classic treatise, entails both an explanation of the social order which ascribes “cognitive validity to its objectivated meanings” and a justification of that order which provides “a normative dignity to its practical imperatives.” The implication is that knowledge of social reality integrates cognitive facts and normative values to continuously legitimize that reality. Authors explore this integration of fact and value in an unexpected setting: the “talk pages” of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia in which discussions of article creation are recorded. Authors analysis of these discussions draws on Nelson Goodman’s Ways of Worldmaking, another classic on the social construction of reality, which catalogues strategies for producing a worldview. Authors utilize Goodman’s theories in four cases of Wikipedia article creation – two histories, “Iraq War” and “Afghanistan War,” and two biographies, “George W. Bush” and “Barack Obama” – all of ...

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Fullerton, Lindsay; Ettema, James S.. (2014). "[[Ways of Worldmaking in Wikipedia: Reality, Legitimacy and Collaborative Knowledge Making]]". SAGE Publications. DOI: 10.1177/0163443713515739.

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Fullerton, Lindsay; Ettema, James S.. (2014). &quot;<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Ways_of_Worldmaking_in_Wikipedia:_Reality,_Legitimacy_and_Collaborative_Knowledge_Making">Ways of Worldmaking in Wikipedia: Reality, Legitimacy and Collaborative Knowledge Making</a>&quot;. SAGE Publications. DOI: 10.1177/0163443713515739.