Paper Info
Title
Web 2.0 according to Wikipedia: Capturing an organizing vision
Abstract
Is Web 2.0 more than a buzzword? In recent years, technologists and others have heatedly debated this question, even in Wikipedia, itself an example of Web 2.0. From the perspective of the present study, Web 2.0 may indeed be a buzzword, but more substantially it is also an example of an organizing vision that drives a community's discourse about certain new Information Technology (IT), serving to advance the technology's adoption and diffusion. Every organizing vision has a career that reflects its construction over time, and in the present study we examine Web 2.0's career as captured in its Wikipedia entry over a 5-year period, finding that it falls into three distinct periods termed Germination, Growth, and Maturation. The findings reveal how Wikipedia, as a discourse vehicle, treats new IT and its many buzzwords, and more broadly captures the careers of their organizing visions. Too, they further our understanding of Wikipedia as a new encyclopedic form, providing novel insights into its uses, its community of contributors, and their editing activities, as well as the dynamics of article construction. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1002/asi.21612
JASIST
Keywords
Field
DocType
discourse vehicle,new it,wiley periodicals,new encyclopedic form,present study,distinct period,article construction,certain new information technology,5-year period,wikipedia entry
Data science,Data mining,World Wide Web,Discourse community,Information retrieval,Information technology,Computer science,Vision,Web 2.0
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
62
10
1532-2882
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.56
12
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Arnaud Gorgeon1111.68
E. Burton Swanson21431249.23