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From virtual communities to project-driven mediated collectives. A comparison of Debian, Wikipedia and the Open Directory Project
Lejeune, Christophe
2011In Francq, Pascal (Ed.) Collaborative Search and Communities of Interest. Trends in Knowledge Sharing and Assessment
 

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Keywords :
Virtual Community; Mediated Collective; Free Software; Wikipedia; Debian; Linux; Open Directory Project
Abstract :
[en] The lay notion of a virtual community is not satisfactory as, strictly speaking, depicted phenomena (Internet-coordinated collectives) are neither communitarian nor virtual. Moreover, the idiom embraces too wide a range of situations. For these reasons, we propose the narrower notion of mediated collectives. Previous ethnographies of Debian, Open Directory and Wikipedia help to define the notion based on empirical observation.
Disciplines :
Sociology & social sciences
Author, co-author :
Lejeune, Christophe  ;  Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB > Centre de recherche en information et communication
Language :
French
Title :
From virtual communities to project-driven mediated collectives. A comparison of Debian, Wikipedia and the Open Directory Project
Publication date :
2011
Main work title :
Collaborative Search and Communities of Interest. Trends in Knowledge Sharing and Assessment
Editor :
Francq, Pascal
Publisher :
IGI Publishing, Hershey, United States
ISBN/EAN :
978-1-61520-841-8
Pages :
10-20
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