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Wikipedia U : Knowledge, Authority, and Liberal Education in the Digital Age.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Tech. edu: a Hopkins Series on Education and Technology SeriesPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (177 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421415505
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Wikipedia UDDC classification:
  • 370.11/2
LOC classification:
  • LC1011 .L44 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Battle of the Books -- 1 Origin Stories -- 2 Paradoxes of Authority -- 3 The Case against Wikipedia -- 4 Playing the Encyclopedia Game -- 5 Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow -- Appendix. Exercises for Exploring Wikipedia and Authority -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Leitch regards Wikipedia as an ideal instrument for probing the central assumptions behind liberal education, making it more than merely, as one of its severest critics has charged, "the encyclopedia game, played online.".
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Battle of the Books -- 1 Origin Stories -- 2 Paradoxes of Authority -- 3 The Case against Wikipedia -- 4 Playing the Encyclopedia Game -- 5 Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow -- Appendix. Exercises for Exploring Wikipedia and Authority -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Leitch regards Wikipedia as an ideal instrument for probing the central assumptions behind liberal education, making it more than merely, as one of its severest critics has charged, "the encyclopedia game, played online.".

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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