Hi Z. Blace,
you can watch the recording of this showcase on youtube [1].
Also, you can find the recordings of previous Research Showcases in this
collection [2].
Best,
Martin
[1]
Overlapping with Art+Feminism session presenting
research on almost the
same topic :-/
Again - calendar synchronization and wikimedia are not at level needed :-(
Best Z. Blace
On Wednesday, July 21, 2021, Janna Layton <jlayton(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
The Research Showcase will be starting in about
30 minutes.
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 4:59 PM Janna Layton <jlayton(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> The July Research Showcase will take place on July 21, 16:30 UTC (9:30am
> PT/ 12:30pm ET/ 18:30pm CEST). The theme is the effects of campaigns to
> close content gaps on Wikipedia, and speakers will be Kai Zhu from
McGill
> University and Isabelle Langrock from the
University of Pennsylvania.
>
> Livestream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otN3H-hIImQ
>
> Talk 1
> Speaker: Kai Zhu (McGill University, Canada)
> Title: Addressing Information Poverty on Wikipedia
> Abstract: Open collaboration platforms have fundamentally changed the
way
> that knowledge is produced, disseminated, and
consumed. In these
systems,
> contributions arise organically with little
to no central governance.
> Although such decentralization provides many benefits, a lack of broad
> oversight and coordination can leave questions of information poverty
and
> skewness to the mercy of the system’s natural
dynamics. Unfortunately,
we
> still lack a basic understanding of the
dynamics at play in these
systems
> and specifically, how contribution and
attention interact and propagate
> through information networks. We leverage a large-scale natural
experiment
> to study how exogenous content contributions
to Wikipedia articles
affect
> the attention that they attract and how that
attention spills over to
other
> articles in the network. Results reveal that
exogenously added content
> leads to significant, substantial, and long-term increases in both
content
> consumption and subsequent contributions.
Furthermore, we find
significant
> attention spillover to downstream hyperlinked
articles. Through both
> analytical estimation and empirically informed simulation, we evaluate
> policies to harness this attention contagion to address the problem of
> information poverty and skewness. We find that harnessing attention
> contagion can lead to as much as a twofold increase in the total
attention
> flow to clusters of disadvantaged articles.
Our findings have important
> policy implications for open collaboration platforms and information
> networks.
>
> Talk 2
> Speaker: Isabelle Langrock (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
> Title: Quantifying and Assessing the Impact of Two Feminist
Interventions
> Abstract: Wikipedia has a well-known gender
divide affecting its
> biographical content. This bias not only shapes social perceptions of
> knowledge, but it can also propagate beyond the platform as its contents
> are leveraged to correct misinformation, train machine-learning tools,
and
> enhance search engine results. What happens
when feminist movements
> intervene to try to close existing gaps? In this talk, we present a
recent
> study of two popular feminist interventions
designed to counteract
digital
> knowledge inequality. Our findings show that
the interventions are
> successful at adding content about women that would otherwise be
missing,
> but they are less successful at addressing
several structural biases
that
> limit the visibility of women within
Wikipedia. We argue for more
granular
> and cumulative analysis of gender divides in
collaborative environments
and
> identify key areas of support that can
further aid the feminist
movements
in
closing Wikipedia’s gender gaps.
--
Janna Layton (she/her)
Administrative Associate - Product & Technology
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
--
Janna Layton (she/her)
Administrative Associate - Product & Technology
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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