This paper focuses on online systems where the burden of legitimating knowledge production and incentivizing participation is explicitly embedded in the system architectures themselves – systems that manage reputations and rewards and structure editorial processes and community relationships. Through a series of short case studies of Wikipedia, Slashdot.org, Amazon.com, and Experts-exchage.com, this paper explores the larger “solution space” of online knowledge communities and works toward a more general theory of the changing modalities of knowledge production and authority in digital culture.
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176-196
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Structures of Participation in Digital Culture
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2007
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Anthropology —-Social/Cultural Anthropology ——–Media and Technology
