Opinion Formation in Wikipedia. Theory, Measurement and Findings.

Thomas Roessing

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The paper discusses several aspects of Wikipedia as an online community. It analyses the role of public opinion in discussions, disputes, and the solution of conflictsamong the users of the online encyclopaedia. Noelle-Neumann’s (1974, 1984) Theory of public opinion as social control is used as a theoretical background to analysethree levels of public opinion in Wikipedia: The meta-level, the discussion-level, and the article-level. The use of the Mediawiki-software for content-analyses is discussed and illustrated by a qualitative analysis of a case study. Subject of the casestudy is a fierce dispute about design and content of user pages in the German language version of Wikipedia.

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1974The Spiral of Silence a Theory of Public Opinion 1986The Spiral of Silence: Public Opinion-Our Social Skin.1984The spiral of silence 1991The Theory of Public Opinion: The Concept of the Spiral of Silence 2006Cultural Differences in Collaborative Authoring of Wikipedia 2007From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratories 1966Public Opinión, Nature, Formation and Role

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