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Wikipedia and the politics of openness / Nathaniel Tkacz.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2015Description: x, 214 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780226192277 (cloth : alkaline paper)
  • 9780226192307 (paperback : alkaline paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 030
LOC classification:
  • R AE 100 T626w 2015
Contents:
Open politics -- Sorting collaboration out -- The governance of forceful statements : from ad-hocracy to ex corpore -- Organizational exit and the regime of computation -- Controversy in action.
Summary: Few virtues are as celebrated in contemporary culture as openness. But what does openness mean, and what would a political theory of openness look like? The author uses Wikipedia, the most prominent product of open organization, to analyze the theory and politics of openness in practice - and to break its spell.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Referencia Referencia (1er. Piso) R AE 100 T626w 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000120327

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-207) and index.

Open politics -- Sorting collaboration out -- The governance of forceful statements : from ad-hocracy to ex corpore -- Organizational exit and the regime of computation -- Controversy in action.

Few virtues are as celebrated in contemporary culture as openness. But what does openness mean, and what would a political theory of openness look like? The author uses Wikipedia, the most prominent product of open organization, to analyze the theory and politics of openness in practice - and to break its spell.

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