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8 - How Can We Help the Internet to Bring Out the Best in Us All?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2022

Amy S. Bruckman
Affiliation:
Georgia Institute of Technology
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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 - 230
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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