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Writing the revolution, Wikipedia and the survival of facts in the digital age, Heather Ford ; foreword by Ethan Zuckerman

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Writing the revolution, Wikipedia and the survival of facts in the digital age, Heather Ford ; foreword by Ethan Zuckerman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [145]-155) and index (pages [157]-161)

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illustrations

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Writing the revolution

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1295611957

Responsibility statement

Heather Ford ; foreword by Ethan Zuckerman

Sub title

Wikipedia and the survival of facts in the digital age

Summary

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--Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Foreword / Ethan Zuckerman -- Wikipedia matters -- Genesis -- Eruption -- Escalation -- Surge -- Translation -- Toward people's histories

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Wikipedia and the survival of facts in the digital age

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