On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:03 AM, René König <kontakt(a)renekoenig.eu> wrote:
Therefore, in this case, lay participation did not
lead to a
‘democratization’ of knowledge production, but rather re-enacted
established hierarchies.
It feels like you set up a straw man there. I think the typical argument is
rather that lay participation in an important cultural artifact is itself
the revolutionary characteristic of WIkipedia. Not that amateur authorship
leads to some further imagined democratization.
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Steven Walling
https://wikimediafoundation.org/