[Air-l] Wikipedia Bibliography

Mark Bell typewritermark at gmail.com
Thu Apr 26 16:55:33 PDT 2007


Phoebe,

I just joined the Wiki research group and I will post it there. Thanks for
the heads up.

Here is the abstract of my thesis:

The Transformation of the Encyclopedia:  A Textual Analysis and Comparison
of the *Encyclopædia Britannica* and *Wikipedia*
The purpose of this thesis is to explore the following research question:
Are there grammatical textual differences between *Encyclopædia Britannica*and
*Wikipedia*? Specifically, this study will focus on the articles for
"Communism" and "Dwight D. Eisenhower" that appear in the online version of
Encyclopædia* Britannica* and *Wikipedia*. Using a grammatical textual
analysis, the study finds there is little difference grammatically
between*Encyclopædia Britannica
* and *Wikipedia* though they are very different types of systems. There are
several different types of textual or contextual methods that could expand
on this initial approach to find differences between* Encyclopædia
Britannica* and *Wikipedia*.

what are you doing with Wiki's?

M

On 4/25/07, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Mark!
>
> Since you made it public, would you be willing to fwd the link to
> wiki-research-l? (
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l)
>
> Also, given all those interesting readings, I'm curious about what your
> thesis is about.
>
> Finally, I think the quote in your sig comes from William Gibson, not Tim
> O'Reilly :)
>
> cheers,
> phoebe
>
> On 4/23/07, Mark Bell <typewritermark at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Folks,
> >
> > I thought I would post my Wikipedia bibliography from my master's
> thesis.
> > Hope you find it useful.
> >
> > http://www.storygeek.com/?page_id=83
> >
> > M
> >
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Mark Bell
MA student in Ball State University's Digital Storytelling program (
http://www.bsu.edu/cim/storytelling/)
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