From virtual communities to project-driven mediated collectives. A comparison of Debian, Wikipedia and the Open Directory Project

Lejeune, Christophe

doi:10.4018/978-1-61520-841-8

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From virtual communities to project-driven mediated collectives. A comparison of Debian, Wikipedia and the Open Directory Project

Lejeune, Christophe

2011 • In Francq, Pascal (Ed.) Collaborative Search and Communities of Interest. Trends in Knowledge Sharing and Assessment

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Keywords :

Virtual Community; Mediated Collective; Free Software; Wikipedia; Debian; Linux; Open Directory Project

Abstract :

[en] The lay notion of a virtual community is not satisfactory as, strictly speaking, depicted phenomena (Internet-coordinated collectives) are neither communitarian nor virtual. Moreover, the idiom embraces too wide a range of situations. For these reasons, we propose the narrower notion of mediated collectives. Previous ethnographies of Debian, Open Directory and Wikipedia help to define the notion based on empirical observation.

Disciplines :

Sociology & social sciences

Author, co-author :

Lejeune, Christophe ; Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB > Centre de recherche en information et communication

Language :

French

Title :

From virtual communities to project-driven mediated collectives. A comparison of Debian, Wikipedia and the Open Directory Project

Publication date :

2011

Main work title :

Collaborative Search and Communities of Interest. Trends in Knowledge Sharing and Assessment

Editor :

Francq, Pascal

Publisher :

IGI Publishing, Hershey, United States

ISBN/EAN :

978-1-61520-841-8

Pages :

10-20

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