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Cultural politics of user-generated encyclopaedias: comparing Chinese Wikipedia and Baidu Baike

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The question of how the Internet affects existing geo-cultural or geo-linguistic communities in relation to nation-states has continued to receive attention among academics and policymakers alike. Language-based technologies and services that aggregate, index, and distribute materials online may reshape pre-existing boundaries of the relationship between users and content, for instance with different language versions of user-generated encyclopaedias or different local versions of search e...

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University of Oxford
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SSD
Department:
Oxford Internet Institute
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Keble College
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SSD
Department:
Oxford Internet Institute
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Supervisor
Publication date:
2015
Type of award:
DPhil
Level of award:
Doctoral
Awarding institution:
Oxford University, UK
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English
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2015-03-06

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