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Black, Laura., Welser, Ted., DeGroot, Jocelyn. and Cosley, Daniel. ""Wikipedia is Not a Democracy": Deliberation and Policy-Making in an Online Community" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, TBA, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 21, 2008 <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p232879_index.html>

Black, L. W., Welser, T. , DeGroot, J. M. and Cosley, D. , 2008-05-21 ""Wikipedia is Not a Democracy": Deliberation and Policy-Making in an Online Community" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, TBA, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2009-05-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p232879_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Wikipedia has quickly become recognized as an important source of information as well as a social force that challenges traditional notions of expertise and knowledge construction. However, it is not often recognized as a vibrant online community that engages in complex self-governance through proposing, discussing, agreeing on, and enforcing their own policies. Despite their vehement claim that ?Wikipedia is not a democracy,? much of what Wikipedians advocate in their description of policy-making is in line with theories of democratic deliberation. This paper compares the policy making processes on the English Wikipedia with the conceptual definition of democratic deliberation in order to understand how deliberative the policy making in Wikipedia is and also consider the ways in which the wiki environment challenges or expands our scholarly conceptions of deliberative interaction. Methods include a combination of content analysis of policy-making discussions and social network analysis of the wikipedians involved in these discussions. Content analysis shows that the discussions studied demonstrated a relatively high level of problem analysis and providing of information, but results were mixed in the group?s demonstration of respect, consideration, and mutual comprehension. Network visualizations of the discussion thread discern patterns in the interaction structure that can be useful in examining issues of equality and the influence that individual members have over the conversation. The combination of measures have implications for future research in deliberation in online and face-to-face settings.

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