Wikipedia Versus Encyclopedia Britannica: a Longitudinal Analysis to Identify the Impact of Social Media on the Standards of Knowledge
Authors | Marcus Messner Marcia W. DiStaso |
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Publication date | 2013 |
DOI | 10.1080/15205436.2012.732649 |
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Wikipedia Versus Encyclopedia Britannica: a Longitudinal Analysis to Identify the Impact of Social Media on the Standards of Knowledge - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2013, written by Marcus Messner and Marcia W. DiStaso.
Overview
The collaboratively edited online encyclopedia Wikipedia is among the most popular websites in the world. Subsequently, it poses a great challenge to traditional encyclopedias, which for centuries have set the standards of society's knowledge with their printed editions. It is, therefore, important to study the impact of social media on the standards of knowledge. This longitudinal panel study analyzed the framing of content in encyclopedia entries of top Fortune companies in Wikipedia and the online version of Encyclopedia Britannica in 2006, 2008, and 2010. Content analyses of the length, tonality, and topics of 3,985 sentences showed that Wikipedia entries were significantly longer, were more positively and negatively framed, and focused more on corporate social responsibilities and legal and ethical issues than the online entries of the traditional encyclopedia, which were predominantly neutral. The findings stress that the knowledge-generation processes in society appear to be fundamentally shift...
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Messner, Marcus; DiStaso, Marcia W.. (2013). "[[Wikipedia Versus Encyclopedia Britannica: a Longitudinal Analysis to Identify the Impact of Social Media on the Standards of Knowledge]]". Taylor & Francis Group. DOI: 10.1080/15205436.2012.732649.
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