Civic engagement meets service learning: Improving Wikipedia's coverage of state government officials

E Norell - PS: Political Science & Politics, 2022 - cambridge.org
Political scientists broadly agree that various forms of civic engagement are necessary to a
flourishing democracy. However, the extent to which we embed civic engagement in our …

Countering underproduction of peer produced goods

K Champion, BM Hill - New Media & Society, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Peer produced goods, such as online knowledge bases and free/libre open source software
rely on contributors who often choose their tasks regardless of consumer needs. These …

Wikipedia and Political Science: Addressing Systematic Biases with Student Initiatives

BA Ackerly, K Michelitch - PS: Political Science & Politics, 2022 - cambridge.org
This symposium discusses systematic knowledge gaps in political science and politics on
Wikipe-dia and the efforts by political scientists to ameliorate these gaps through student …

Wikipedia edit-A-thons: Sites of struggle, resistance, and responsibility

A Sengupta, BA Ackerly - PS: Political Science & Politics, 2022 - cambridge.org
For relatively privileged university students in the Global North, slow internet, dropped Zoom
calls, and trouble logging in are the extent of their digital-access challenges. This article …

Reducing Bias in Wikipedia's Coverage of Political Scientists

S Baltz - PS: Political Science & Politics, 2022 - cambridge.org
One in five political scientists with biographies on Wikipedia are women and almost half are
American. Biases on Wikipedia can cause real harm, so I created or expanded a political …