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“It’s incompatible with the views of the community about themselves and their defining characteristics”: norms and knowledge production within the transgender wikipedia page

Kitzie, Vanessa; Li, Xiaofeng

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Title
“It’s incompatible with the views of the community about themselves and their defining characteristics”: norms and knowledge production within the transgender wikipedia page
Author(s)
Kitzie, Vanessa; Li, Xiaofeng
Issue Date
2016-03-15
Keyword(s)
  • social media
  • social constructionism
  • library and information science
  • gender studies
  • knowledge production
Abstract
In this poster, we present a typology of norms shaping editing decisions within the English version of the Wikipedia Transgender topic page. Using Talk page content, where editors negotiate these decisions, we employed an inductive coding approach to identify these norms as: Wikipedia, individual belief, social, and transgender community. Findings indicate that while editors often utilize norms outside of Wikipedia to shape editing decisions, these norms must ultimately be framed as Wikipedia norms before any suggested edits are made to the Wikipedia page. This finding informs future research of how such formalized modes of knowledge production may suppress certain perspectives on marginalized topics.
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iSchools
Series/Report Name or Number
IConference 2016 Proceedings
Type of Resource
text
Language
eng
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/89368
DOI
https://doi.org/10.9776/16517
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