Hi everyone,
I am doing a lit review on the topic of democratic decision making
on Wikipedia. I wonder - what are your favorite papers on this
subject?
So far the most extensive discussions I've found are
Black, Laura, Ted Welser, Jocely DeGroot, and Daniel Cosley.
2008 "Wikipedia is not a democracy”: Deliberation and policy-making
in an online community."
Hilbert, Martin. 2009. The Maturing Concept of
E-Democracy: From E-Voting and Online Consultations to Democratic
Value Out of Jumbled Online Chatter
Klemp. Nathaniel J. 2010. From Town-Halls to Wikis: Exploring
Wikipedia's Implications for Deliberative Democracy.
Reagle's 2010 book subchapter on
"Polling and Voting".
Firer-Blaess,
Sylvain 2011. Wikipedia: an Example for Electronic Democracy?
Decision, Discipline and Discourse in the Collaborative
Encyclopedia
What did I miss?
In the broader scope, I'd also appreciate suggestions as to the best
readings in the area of Internet communities and democracy. To be
more precise, let me stress the word community here. The literature
in e-democracy and related terms is of course very broad, but I am
interested in studies of how online communities (like Wikipedia)
make (quasi?)democratic decisions. Wikipedians vote, and Wikimedians
in general do as well. How unique are they (are we...) in this? Who
else has such votes? Redditors? Slashdotians? Other groups? What are
the turnouts, trends? Would appreciate any information that comes to
mind.
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Piotr Konieczny, PhD
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