Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness

Wikipedia and the

Politics of Openness
nathaniel tkacz

The University of Chicago Press

Chicago and London
Nathaniel Tkacz is assistant professor in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodolo-
gies at the University of  Warwick and coeditor of Critical Point of  View: A Wikipedia
Reader.

The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637

The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London
© 2015 by Nathaniel Tkacz
All rights reserved. Published 2015.
Printed in the United States of America

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isbn-13: 978-0-226-19227-7 (cloth)

isbn-13: 978-0-226-19230-7 (paper)
isbn-13: 978-0-226-19244-4 (e-book)
doi: 10.7208/chicago/9780226192444.001.0001

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Tkacz, Nathaniel, author.

  Wikipedia and the politics of openness / Nathaniel Tkacz.
    pages cm
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  isbn 978-0-226-19227-7 (cloth : alkaline paper)—isbn 978-0-226-19230-7
(paperback : alkaline paper)—isbn 978-0-226-19244-4 (e-book)  1. Wikipedia—
Social aspects.  2. Authorship—Collaboration—Social aspects.  3. User-generated
content—Social aspects.  4. Communities of practice.  I. Title.
  ae100.t53 2015
  030—dc23
2014010459

a This paper meets the requirements of ansi/niso z39.48–1992

(Permanence of Paper).
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