Cognitive and Social Factors Affecting the Use of Wikipedia and Information Seeking
Authors | Siyoung Chung |
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Publication date | 2012 |
Links | [38(3) Wikipedia Original] [as Preprint] |
Cognitive and Social Factors Affecting the Use of Wikipedia and Information Seeking - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2012, written by Siyoung Chung.
Overview
Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, is the preferred choice among resources used by college students to meet their research needs. However, Wikipedia has been criticized for its low information quality, lack of accountability, inconsistency, and vulnerability to vandalism. Despite the warnings and concerns voiced by academia, online learning tools such as Wikipedia will continue their rise as major learning resource in today's classroom. Using a sample of 184 college students, the study proposed theoretical models to test the effects of internal beliefs, motivations, and social influences on Wikipedia use and information-seeking, and further empirically tested those models. The findings of this study suggested that Wikipedia use is driven by internal belief and peer pressure, whereas information-seeking is influenced by belief, motivation, and subjective norms. The implications of the findings for the research and practice are discussed. Resume Wikipedia, l'encyclopedie gratuite en ligne, est le choix prefere des etudiants ayant besoin de faire une recherche. Cependant, Wikipedia a ete critique pour la faible qualite de ses informations, son manque d’imputabilite, son incoherence et sa vulnerabilite au vandalisme. En depit des mises en garde et des inquietudes exprimees par le milieu universitaire, l’importance en salle de classe des outils d'apprentissage en ligne tels que Wikipedia continuera de croitre. Sur la base d’un echantillon de 184 etudiants de niveau collegial, l'etude a propose des modeles theoriques pour tester les effets des croyances personnelles, des motivations et des influences sociales sur l'utilisation de Wikipedia et sur la recherche d'information. Ces modeles ont ensuite ete testes empiriquement. Les resultats de cette etude suggerent que l'utilisation de Wikipedia est motivee par les croyances personnelles et la pression exercee par les camarades, alors que la recherche d'information est influencee par les croyances, la motivation et des normes subjectives. L’article se termine par une discussion des implications de ces resultats pour la recherche et la pratique. CJLT/RCAT
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Chung, Siyoung. (2012). "[[Cognitive and Social Factors Affecting the Use of Wikipedia and Information Seeking]]". Vol. .
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Chung, Siyoung. (2012). "<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Cognitive_and_Social_Factors_Affecting_the_Use_of_Wikipedia_and_Information_Seeking">Cognitive and Social Factors Affecting the Use of Wikipedia and Information Seeking</a>". Vol. .
