维基百科是如何被大众写出来？纽约州立大学石溪分校社会学博士论文

本文为博士学位论文系列第8篇。其它各篇见页底。

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天天一搜百度就是百度百科，到底它是怎么写出来的？

哪些人写的？

为什么能这写这么多？

知乎上不是说生产阅读量top的内容基本靠那1%吗？

——wiki百科是这样吗？

Michael Andrew Restivo 在他的博士论文

Why Wiki Works: Peer Production and Making Knowledge the Wiki Way 回答了这一问题（ 纽约州立大学石溪分校社会学，2014年毕业）

摘要：

With the widespread adoption of advanced information and communication technologies, the past decade has witnessed a proliferation of online organizations that aim to create public goods through voluntary collaboration among self-organized, networked individuals. 

1. 维基百科作为在线集体行动的大众生产

This form of online collective action has been termed peer production. One of the most successful examples of peer production, and the most widely studied, is the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which is written in a collaborative fashion by hundreds of thousands of volunteers and used by millions of people daily. 

2. 研究问题与分析视角：参与动机——涌现的组织结构—不平等互动

In this dissertation, I use Wikipedia as a strategic case site to critically reflect on the state of our knowledge about how peer production works and to develop a series of empirical studies that offer insights into several puzzles in the literature.

These include questions of what motivates participation in online collectives, how emergent organizational structures shape patterns of participation, and how interactional aspects of participation relate to characteristics of the goods being produced. 

In each case, I argue that we must take into account—both theoretically and methodologically—the high degree of inequality in participation that we commonly see in such organizations. 

My findings reveal insights about the origins as well as consequences of participation inequality.

本文为博士学位论文系列第8篇

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