Book contents
- Should You Believe Wikipedia?
- Should You Believe Wikipedia?
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Design and Social Behavior
- 1 Are Online “Communities” Really Communities?
- 2 What Can Online Collaboration Accomplish?
- 3 Should You Believe Wikipedia?
- 4 How Does the Internet Change How We Think?
- 5 How Do People Express Identity Online, and Why Is This Important for Online Interaction?
- 6 What Is Bad Online Behavior, and What Can We Do About It?
- 7 How Do Business Models Shape Online Communities?
- 8 How Can We Help the Internet to Bring Out the Best in Us All?
- References
- Index
8 - How Can We Help the Internet to Bring Out the Best in Us All?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 January 2022
- Should You Believe Wikipedia?
- Should You Believe Wikipedia?
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Design and Social Behavior
- 1 Are Online “Communities” Really Communities?
- 2 What Can Online Collaboration Accomplish?
- 3 Should You Believe Wikipedia?
- 4 How Does the Internet Change How We Think?
- 5 How Do People Express Identity Online, and Why Is This Important for Online Interaction?
- 6 What Is Bad Online Behavior, and What Can We Do About It?
- 7 How Do Business Models Shape Online Communities?
- 8 How Can We Help the Internet to Bring Out the Best in Us All?
- References
- Index
Summary
Revisits the previous topics (community, collaboration, knowledge building, identity, behavior management, and market forces) and explores what constructive steps are possible for members of online sites, and for designers of those sites, to make the internet better. Education is another important missing ingredient. To understand the internet, people need a more nuanced understanding of the nature of knowledge, free speech, and more.
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- Should You Believe Wikipedia?Online Communities and the Construction of Knowledge, pp. 213 - 230Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022