Fake news: if you care about being lied to you’ll be more careful about the way you use social media
Social media is a huge channel for false information. News organisations need to wean themselves off it.
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The internet is enabling scientists to understand how ‘collective memory’ works
Current events can boost our collective memory of past events in predictable ways, finds study.
Jimmy Wales is betting crowd-sourced news can restore our trust in the media — he might be right
Wikipedia has earned our trust. Now its founder proposes an innovative assault on fake news with Wikitribune.
How can we learn to reject fake news in the digital world?
Researchers have found that today's students, despite being 'digital natives,' have a hard time distinguishing what is real and what is fake online. Metaliteracy might provide the answers.
Wikipedia is already the world’s ‘Dr Google’ – it’s time for doctors and researchers to make it better
Medical entries on Wikipedia are widely consulted across the world. Doctors and medical researchers need to make efforts to ensure the content on the online collaborative encyclopedia is accurate.
Our world is not a pure market economy, and economics can’t explain it
Economics struggles to explain the explosion of gift models at the heart of our online economy.
Why getting medical information from Wikipedia isn’t always a bad idea
The academic medical community largely views Wikipedia with suspicion. But some traditional journals are starting to take the site more seriously – and some journals work very closely with it.
How Wikipedia’s silent coup ousted our traditional sources of knowledge
But is it a good thing?
Wikipedia at 15: in decline but condition isn’t terminal – so what may the future hold?
Wikipedia is celebrating its 15th birthday, but it's eight years since contributor numbers peaked. What does this tell us about its future?
How to feed and raise a Wikipedia robo-editor
What does it take to teach an AI how to read natural human languages?
Using Wikipedia as PR is a problem, but our lack of a critical eye is worse
That Wikipedia is used for less-than scrupulously neutral purposes shouldn't surprise us - our lack of critical eye that's the real problem.
Can’t seem to stop those ads following you around? Why not become ‘metaliterate’?
To understand the wide array of information in today’s world, we need a different kind of literacy. Some researchers call that 'metaliteracy.'
Why it’s time the world embraced Wikipedia
Wikipedia is frequently considered an unacceptable and unreliable source of information. It's also constantly correcting – and isn't that what content should strive to do?
On the internet, no one knows you’re Grant Shapps …
From Grant Shapps to the Cameronettes, the best and worst of the internet for the last week of #GE2015.
Wikipedia sockpuppetry: linking accounts to real people is pure speculation
Conservative chairman Grant Shapps is accused of sockpuppetry on Wikipedia, but this former Wikipedia admin isn't so sure the evidence stands up.
Using Wikipedia: a scholar redraws academic lines by including it in his syllabus
One academic's experience on how Wikipedia can help students become better writers, better researchers and even better thinkers.
Why global contributions to Wikipedia are so unequal
The geography of knowledge has always been uneven. Some people and places have always been more visible and had more voices than others. But the internet seemed to promise something different: a greater…
Paid editors on Wikipedia – should you be worried?
Whether you trust it or ignore it, Wikipedia is one of the most popular websites in the world and accessed by millions of people every day. So would you trust it any more (or even less) if you knew people…
Geotagging reveals Wikipedia is not quite so equal after all
Wikipedia is often seen as a great equaliser. Every day, hundreds of thousands of people collaborate on a seemingly endless range of topics by writing, editing and discussing articles, and uploading images…
So who does own the copyright on a monkey selfie?
Whilst visiting a national park in North Sulawesi wildlife photographer David Slater had his camera stolen – not by a thief, but by an inquisitive crested black macaque. The resulting selfies are causing…
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Research Fellow in Computational Social Science, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
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Distinguished Librarian, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Vice Provost for Academic Programs, SUNY Empire State College
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ARC DECRA Fellow, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University
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Adjunct Professor of Sport Studies, UC-RISE, University of Canberra
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Lecturer, University of Southern Queensland
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PhD Candidate, Queensland University of Technology
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Reader in IT and Law, University of Bristol
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Assistant Professor of Information Systems, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Professor of Journalism Innovation, City, University of London
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PhD candidate, Journalism & New Media, Cardiff University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, College of the Holy Cross
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Senior Lecturer in Education & Technology, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Medical Doctor, Epidemiologist and Biostatistician: University College Cork, University of the Witwatersrand
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