Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (533 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 022619230X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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Instead, it is productive of new knowledge at each step. “This book will make people sit up and think in a new way about a timely set of issues. Each new layer of argument uncovers riches of detail, new bibliographies of current research, and surprising new directions of thought. His argument balances nicely between powerful general statements and compelling concrete demonstrations.”. Tkacz’s argument is not predictable or one-dimensional
"Informative and intelligent" according to doug korty. This is a very informative and intelligent book. Some will find it a bit esoteric and too detailed or having some unnecessary material (going off on tangents). However, the author has a great deal of knowledge not just about Wikipedia but about many aspects of culture and politics and he writes with wide ranging perspective. We can hope that he
Rooted in software culture and carrying more than a whiff of Silicon Valley technical utopianism, opennessof decision-making, data, and organizational structureis seen as the cure for many problems in politics and business. Few virtues are as celebrated in contemporary culture as openness. But what does openness mean, and what would a political theory of openness look like? With Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness, Nathaniel Tkacz uses Wikipedia, the most prominent product of open organization, to analyze the theory and politics of openness in practiceand to break its spell. Through discuss