Conflict dynamics in collaborative knowledge production. A study of network gatekeeping on Wikipedia |
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Institution: | University of Passau, Innstraße 33a, 94030 Passau, Germany |
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Abstract: | Digitalization has fundamentally changed gatekeeping by allowing users to participate in processes of information control. We study gatekeeping on Wikipedia by analyzing networks of deletions among editors. Factors considered to explain the emergence of these networks are editors’ information production capability, their range of activity, their communicative ties, their geographical location, and their past interactions. Relying on relational event models, we find that the observed gatekeeping processes are not only shaped by the factors related to an editor’s standing in the community, but also to a certain extent by their attribution to content-related groups and some forms of past interactions. |
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Keywords: | Network gatekeeping Wikipedia Social network analysis Relational event models |
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