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Writing the Revolution : Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital Age by Heather Ford (2022, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherMIT Press
ISBN-100262046296
ISBN-139780262046299
eBay Product ID (ePID)14057239533
Product Key Features
Number of Pages184 Pages
Publication NameWriting the Revolution : Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital Age
LanguageEnglish
SubjectEncyclopedias, Library & Information Science / Digital & Online Resources, Web / User-Generated Content, Middle East / Egypt (See Also Ancient / Egypt)
Publication Year2022
TypeNot Available
Subject AreaComputers, Reference, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
AuthorHeather Ford
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight8.3 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN2021-058945
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal030
Table Of ContentForeword ix Preface xiii 1 Wikipedia Matters 1 2 Genesis 23 3 Eruption 43 4 Escalation 65 5 Surge 87 6 Translation 111 7 Toward People's Histories 131 Acknowledgments 141 Notes 145 Index 157
Intended AudienceTrade
SynopsisA close reading of Wikipedia's article on the Egyptian Revolution reveals the complexity inherent in establishing the facts of events as they occur and are relayed to audiences near and far. Wikipedia bills itself as an encyclopedia built on neutrality, authority, and crowd-sourced consensus. Platforms like Google and digital assistants like Siri distribute Wikipedia's facts widely, further burnishing its veneer of impartiality. But as Heather Ford demonstrates in Writing the Revolution , the facts that appear on Wikipedia are often the result of protracted power struggles over how data are created and used, how history is written and by whom, and the very definition of facts in a digital age. In Writing the Revolution , Ford looks critically at how the Wikipedia article about the 2011 Egyptian Revolution evolved over the course of a decade, both shaping and being shaped by the Revolution as it happened. When data are published in real time, they are subject to an intense battle over their meaning across multiple fronts. Ford answers key questions about how Wikipedia's so-called consensus is arrived at; who has the power to write dominant histories and which knowledges are actively rejected; how these battles play out across the chains of circulation in which data travel; and whether history is now written by algorithms.
LC Classification NumberAE100.F67 2022
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