Digital collaborative infrastructures and the work of knowledge maintenance and repair - The case of Wikipedia

  • Giacomo Poderi (Speaker)

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

    Description

    Guest lecture at the "Technology in Organizations and Society" course.

    In this lecture, I adopt the STS concept of infrastructure to look at contemporary cases of digital platforms and ecosystems and at how they facilitate different forms of collaboration. In particular, I focus on Wikipedia as an exemplary case of information infrastructure that supports the production of encyclopedic knowledge by means of distributed and self-organized collaboration among human and non-human actors. Typical dimensions of infrastructures such as categories, standards, breakdowns, non-neutrality, incremental, and relational nature will support our exploration of Wikipedia during the lecture.
    PeriodSept 2021
    Held atMälardalen University, Sweden
    Degree of RecognitionInternational

    Keywords

    • collaboration
    • infrastructure
    • wikipedia
    • maintenance and repair
    • STS

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