University students in the educational field and Wikipedia vandalism

Sierra, Ángel Obregón; Castanedo, Jorge Oceja

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“…Sierra and Castanedo [30] asked focus groups of students and Wikipedia editors to speculate as to why people vandalize. Students thought vandals might be making a joke, acting out of boredom, or engaging in ideological protest.…”

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Characterizing Online Vandalism: A Rational Choice Perspective

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2020

International Conference on Social Media and Society

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What factors influence the decision to vandalize? Although the harm is clear, the benefit to the vandal is less clear. In many cases, the thing being damaged may itself be something the vandal uses or enjoys. Vandalism holds communicative value: perhaps to the vandal themselves, to some audience at whom the vandalism is aimed, and to the general public. Viewing vandals as rational community participants despite their antinormative behavior offers the possibility of engaging with or countering their choices in novel ways. Rational choice theory (RCT) as applied in value expectancy theory (VET) offers a strategy for characterizing behaviors in a framework of rational choices, and begins with the supposition that subject to some weighting of personal preferences and constraints, individuals maximize their own utility by committing acts of vandalism. This study applies the framework of RCT and VET to gain insight into vandals' preferences and constraints. Using a mixed-methods analysis of Wikipedia, I combine social computing and criminological perspectives on vandalism to propose an ontology of vandalism for online content communities. I use this ontology to categorize 141 instances of vandalism and find that the character of vandalistic acts varies by vandals' relative identifiability, policy history with Wikipedia, and the effort required to vandalize. CCS CONCEPTS • Security and privacy → Social aspects of security and privacy; • Human-centered computing → Wikis; Empirical studies in collaborative and social computing; Computer supported cooperative work; Collaborative content creation; Social media.

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Characterizing Online Vandalism: A Rational Choice Perspective

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2020

International Conference on Social Media and Society

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Wikipedia y los museos de la Subdirección General de Bellas Artes

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2020

Arte Individ. Soc.

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Se trata de una investigación en torno al discurso online creado en Wikipedia sobre los centros que dependen de la Subdirección General de Bellas Artes, es decir, los denominados Museos Estatales, el Museo Nacional del Prado, el Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía y el Museo Lázaro Galdiano. Se analiza la posible creación de un discurso libre. Se trata de contrastar el concepto Open Authority (autoridad libre) expuesto por Lori Byrd Phillips. Se han monitorizado las entradas, los artículos y la construcción de debate en todas las versiones idiomáticas de la enciclopedia online durante tres años. Además, se ha valorado la calidad de los artículos analizados. También se ha observado el comportamiento de los usuarios, o wikipedistas, que han participado en estas entradas. Nuestras conclusiones reflejan como Wikipedia es un lugar de creación libre sobre los discursos de los museos de arte.

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University students in the educational field and Wikipedia vandalism

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Characterizing Online Vandalism: A Rational Choice Perspective

Characterizing Online Vandalism: A Rational Choice Perspective

Wikipedia y los museos de la Subdirección General de Bellas Artes

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