TY - GEN
T1 - Black lives matter in Wikipedia
T2 - 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2017
AU - Twyman, Marlon
AU - Keegan, Brian C.
AU - Shaw, Aaron
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/2/25
Y1 - 2017/2/25
N2 - Social movements use social computing systems to complement offline mobilizations, but prior literature has focused almost exclusively on movement actors' use of social media. In this paper, we analyze participation and attention to topics connected with the Black Lives Matter movement in the English language version of Wikipedia between 2014 and 2016. Our results point to the use of Wikipedia to (1) intensively document and connect historical and contemporary events, (2) collaboratively migrate activity to support coverage of new events, and (3) dynamically re-appraise preexisting knowledge in the aftermath of new events. These findings reveal patterns of behavior that complement theories of collective memory and collective action and help explain how social computing systems can encode and retrieve knowledge about social movements as they unfold.
AB - Social movements use social computing systems to complement offline mobilizations, but prior literature has focused almost exclusively on movement actors' use of social media. In this paper, we analyze participation and attention to topics connected with the Black Lives Matter movement in the English language version of Wikipedia between 2014 and 2016. Our results point to the use of Wikipedia to (1) intensively document and connect historical and contemporary events, (2) collaboratively migrate activity to support coverage of new events, and (3) dynamically re-appraise preexisting knowledge in the aftermath of new events. These findings reveal patterns of behavior that complement theories of collective memory and collective action and help explain how social computing systems can encode and retrieve knowledge about social movements as they unfold.
KW - Civil rights
KW - Collaboration network
KW - Computer-supported collective action
KW - Social computing
KW - Social movements
KW - User behavior modeling
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U2 - 10.1145/2998181.2998232
DO - 10.1145/2998181.2998232
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85014746449
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
SP - 1400
EP - 1412
BT - CSCW 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 25 February 2017 through 1 March 2017
ER -