Posted by: n6905633 on: May 12, 2009
There have been many online encyclopedias over the history of the internet such as the online version of Britannica, but what makes Wikipedia different? “Traditionally produced, standard encyclopaedias…encapsulate the current state of accepted knowledge” (Bruns, 2008, 103) whilst Wikipedia creates what Bruns (2008, 103) describes as “representations of knowledge.” Put simply, Wikipedia is a “collaborative [...]