[Air-l] Wikipedia entry cited by UK educational establishment

[Martin Garthwaite]

As you can see, the heavy hitters at the BBC are getting into the debate

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69r7pY8s3EM

On 9/29/06, David Brake <d.r.brake at lse.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Long-overdue recognition of its usefulness or beginning of the end of
> civilization? I don't want to speculate - but I certainly raised an
> eyebrow when I saw http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/childhood/ -
> the website for a 30 part radio history of childhood.
>
> It's a flagship series on Radio 4, broadcast (and produced?) by the
> BBC with some kind of relationship to the Open University and one of
> the two external links given on the site was to a Wikipedia entry. I
> don't know if this is a new policy from the BBC or just some web
> producer taking their own initiative but it's a sign of the times
> that this would have been considered...
>
> ---
> David Brake, Doctoral Student in Media and Communications, London
> School of Economics & Political Science
> <http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/study/
> mPhilPhDMediaAndCommunications.htm>
> Also see http://davidbrake.org/ (home page), http://blog.org/
> (personal weblog) and http://get.to/lseblog (academic groupblog)
> Author of Dealing With E-Mail - <http://davidbrake.org/
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