WIKIPEDIA - SOCIOLOGICAL LIVE COVERAGE (Wikipedia - socjologiczny reportaz z miejsca zdarzen)

• Authors: Danielewicz Michal
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article offers a sociological account of the phenomenon of voluntary network cooperation in production and maintenance of common goods. The author focuses on Wikipedia - online encyclopedia created by internet users. The text is based on the analysis of 10 individual in-depth interviews with active wikipedians as well as on the virtual ethnography of the wikipedians' community portal. The account of encyclopedic project is undertaken at two levels. At the macro-level the Wikipedia's cultural and ideological background as well as organizational model are presented. At the micro-level the network cooperation is analyzed from the individual viewpoints of active wikipedians. The article's double perspective connecting institutional and individual levels of Wikipedia project serves as a device for conveying a more complex and detailed image of network collective action.

Keywords

EN

HACKER; NETWORK SOCIETY; OPEN SOURCE; SOCIAL CAPITAL; WEAK TIES.; WIKIPEDIA

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Studia Socjologiczne
• Year: 2010
• Issue: 2(197)
• Pages: 127-156
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Danielewicz Michal

• Michal Danielewicz, for postal address contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA083519