Amateur collaborative editing can yield balanced and reliable information

Evidence

Mass media have acted as a pseudo-public sphere… . Wikipedia is surprisingly good proof that collaborative work by amateurs can provide balanced and reliable information… . A Wikipedia entry is a living and constantly changing organism, reflecting the current state of negotiations between people of vastly differing opinions on a subject. (Aufderheide 2007) Our experience with the “neoliberalism” entry in Wikipedia should alert us that there is an element of wishful thinking in this portrait of the Net Information Commons as a political wonderland. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2100

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The web enabled mass amateurization of creative work formerly reserved for professionals — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 905; Platforms replace asymmetry with reciprocity but lose editorial filtering — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 33

Broader Connections

• Platforms replace asymmetry with reciprocity but lose editorial filtering #contradicts (0.75) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 33