Research:Citation Practices
Key PersonnelEdit
- Timothy Gorichanaz
- Tom Park
- Meen Chul Kim
Project SummaryEdit
We want to better understand how and why Wikipedians add citations to articles in order to better support both tools and knowledge about citation as a knowledge-building practice, particularly outside of scientific disciplines, which is the context for most citation analysis and theorizing.
MethodsEdit
Interviews with Wikipedia editors.
DisseminationEdit
Interviews will be analyzed and submitted to research venues; any resulting papers will be posted on the PI's website: http://andreaforte.net
Wikimedia Policies, Ethics, and Human Subjects ProtectionEdit
Approved by Drexel University IRB on July 24, 2014.
Benefits for the Wikimedia communityEdit
We are working on a website to allow people to explore citations that are used on Wikipedia with the dual goals of helping readers think critically about sources and helping editors understand where they and others tend to get their information.
TimelineEdit
Interviews - August-Sept 2014
FundingEdit
National Science Foundation, Human-Centered Computing, CISE IIS (Division of Information & Intelligent Systems) #1253302
ReferencesEdit
Results of this research: Andrea Forte, Nazanin Andalibi, Tim Gorichanaz, Meen Chul Kim, Thomas Park, Aaron Halfaker. (2018) Information Fortification: An Online Citation Behavior Proceedings of ACM Conference on Supporting Groupwork (Group) Sanibel Island, FL, USA. http://andreaforte.net/ForteInformationFortification.pdf
Related work from the PI: Forte, Andrea, Nazanin Andalibi, Thomas Park, Heather Willever-Farr (2014). Designing Information Savvy Societies: An Introduction to Assessability. Proceedings of ACM SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'14), Toronto, Canada.
Forte, Andrea and Thomas Park. (2012). How People Assess Cooperatively Authored Information Resources. Poster. Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym '12), Linz, Austria.
External linksEdit
ContactsEdit
aforteATdrexelDOTedu