On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:03 AM, René König <kontakt@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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