Nitpicking online knowledge representations of governmental leadership. The case of Belgian prime ministers in Wikipedia and Wikidata.
A key pitfall for knowledge-seekers, particularly in the political arena, is informed complacency, or an over-reliance on search engines at the cost of epistemic curiosity. Recent scholarship has documented significant problems with those sources of knowledge that the public relies on the most, including instances of ideological and algorithmic bias in Wikipedia and Google. Such observations raise the question of how deep one would actually need to dig into these platforms’ representations of factual (historical and biographical) knowledge before encountering similar epistemological issues. Th... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2020 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Liber Quarterly: The Journal of European Research Libraries, Vol 30, Iss 1 (2020) |
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openjournals.nl
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Schlagwörter: | politics / Wikidata / Wikipedia / data studies / digital humanities / Bibliography. Library science. Information resources / Z |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26500677 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.18352/lq.10362 |