Mind the Skills Gap: the Role of Internet Know-How and Gender in Differentiated Contributions to Wikipedia
Authors | Eszter Hargittai Aaron D. Shaw |
|---|---|
Publication date | 2015 |
DOI | 10.1080/1369118X.2014.957711 |
Links | Original |
Mind the Skills Gap: the Role of Internet Know-How and Gender in Differentiated Contributions to Wikipedia - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2015, written by Eszter Hargittai and Aaron D. Shaw.
Overview
Despite the egalitarian rhetoric surrounding online cultural production, profound gender inequalities remain in who contributes to one of the most visited Web sites worldwide, Wikipedia. In analyzing this persistent disparity, previous research has focused on aspects of current contributors and the existing Wikipedia community. Authors draw on unique panel survey data of young adults with information about both Wikipedia contributors and non-contributors. Authors examine the role of people's background attributes and Internet skills in participation on the site. Authors find that the gender gap in editing is exacerbated by a similarly significant Internet skills gap. Authors results show that the most likely contributors are high-skilled males and that among low-skilled Internet users no gender gap in Wikipedia contributions exists. Authors findings suggest that efforts to understand the gender gap must also take Internet skills into account.
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Hargittai, Eszter; Shaw, Aaron D.. (2015). "[[Mind the Skills Gap: the Role of Internet Know-How and Gender in Differentiated Contributions to Wikipedia]]". Routledge. DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2014.957711.
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Hargittai, Eszter; Shaw, Aaron D.. (2015). "<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Mind_the_Skills_Gap:_the_Role_of_Internet_Know-How_and_Gender_in_Differentiated_Contributions_to_Wikipedia">Mind the Skills Gap: the Role of Internet Know-How and Gender in Differentiated Contributions to Wikipedia</a>". Routledge. DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2014.957711.
