Cognitive and Social Factors Affecting the Use of Wikipedia and Information Seeking

• المؤلف الرئيسي: CHUNG, Siyoung
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
• الموضوعات: Wikipedia; online learning tool; motivation; belief; social influences; information-seeking.; Business; Communication Technology and New Media; Higher Education
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/3317; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/4316/viewcontent/654_3149_1_PB.pdf
• المؤسسة: Singapore Management University

Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, is the preferred choice among resources used by college students to meet their research needs. However, Wikipedia has been criticized for its low information quality, lack of accountability, inconsistency, and vulnerability to vandalism. Despite the warnings...