Stack Overview

Review of some research into the popular programming Q&A, Stack Overflow

Online community social typology

A selection of studies aiming to characterise user profiles in online communities through structural and/or content based analysis (image:flickr/accidental hedonist)

Quora: Social epistemology, credibility & the QA interface

A view on the epistemic value of the content and interface of the social QA site
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The evolution of reason

The origin of reasoning is in preparing to persuade or believe others, this paper argues

The Social Epistemology of Wikipedia

Notes from a special issue of Episteme on the epistemology of mass collaboration. In the set of articles reviewed, philosophers consider Wikipedia from the perspective of theories of testimony and truth.

ISKO event – digital cultural heritage

Some notes from a set of talks at UCL on 9th June.

Asking the audience

Bites from the 2006 book “Infotopia” by Cass Sunstein on the aggregation of knowledge

information systems research: describe, critique or design?

At what level does IS research work best? This post argues for more direct involvement in design from the research community.
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Book Review: Metadata and Semantics

A review of the proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research, held in Corfu in October 2007

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Online Information 2009 – A Twitter Timeline

An interactive timeline of tweets from Onine Information 2009