Study on Reaching a Consensus in the Collaborative Network-editing -- A Case Study of Wikipedia

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10.2991/iccessh-18.2018.357How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Wikipedia; knowledge production; objection crisis; Internet

Abstract

Wikipedia, as a representative of the online encyclopedia, has destabilized the way of traditional book editing and publishing. It becomes the foretype of the multiplayer cooperative mode of knowledge production in the Internet age. Although anonymity and decentralization of the network broke the discourse hegemony, the Internet also provides a free platform for questioning and negating. While what Habermas calls "objection crisis" on the network is even more significant, it is still possible to reach a consensus between two rational and sincere people because of the commonality between the subjects in the communicative action. Objection is not only the necessary process in building consensus, but also promotes "ideas flow" which is the most important driving force for a group generated from diverse thoughts in the networking groups.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Gang Li
AU  - Jing Cao
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TI  - Study on Reaching a Consensus in the Collaborative Network-editing -- A Case Study of Wikipedia
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 1633
SN  - 2352-5398
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