Wikipedia U: Knowledge, Authority, and Liberal Education in the Digital Age

by Thomas Leitch

Book Overview

Explores the battle between the top-down authority traditionally ascribed to experts and scholars and the bottom-up authority exemplified by Wikipedia.

Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia has been a lightning rod for debates about knowledge and traditional authority. It has come under particular scrutiny from publishers of print encyclopedias and college professors, who are skeptical about whether a crowd-sourced encyclopedia--in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421415356
• ISBN13: 9781421415352
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"