SIO389: "Wikipedia Is the Most Accurate Form of Information Ever Created"
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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So says my esteemed guest, Dr. Amy Bruckman! Is she right? I won't be coy, I tend to think she is. But what a fascinating statement! And her thesis makes for an equally fascinating book - Wikipedia: The Most Reliable Source on the Internet? So let's dig in!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Series Inquires only this is episode 389 I'm your host Thomas Smith |
| 0:17.4 | and if I sound weird it's because I'm recording just straight into the old laptop because |
| 0:23.3 | we are traveling right now Lydia and I and little baby Remy had a great time at QED and since we're |
| 0:31.5 | here winning Rome except not Rome we figured why not also do a little bit of traveling so we are |
| 0:38.0 | abroad and actually before we get to today's show I wanted to mention that I think the last |
| 0:43.6 | episode for this month is going to be a bonus because we're about to meet up with one |
| 0:50.0 | heat then right and I thought it would be fun we were wanting to record a little bonus just |
| 0:53.5 | talking about QED and some of our funny and fun and interesting experiences and then I thought wait |
| 0:59.7 | we're going to meet up with Heath so maybe Lydia and I can tell Heath what has happened |
| 1:06.0 | and we can get Heath's reactions to it which will be hilarious because there's some good stories |
| 1:11.2 | so that's what we're hoping to do for the last episode of the month and that'll be available |
| 1:16.0 | on patreon.com slash series pod so go there and I'm going to make this available to all patrons |
| 1:21.5 | any level so get on there and pledge anything and you'll get access to this when it comes out very |
| 1:26.8 | soon okay today's episode I thought it would be fitting considering the topic and the guess to just |
| 1:33.0 | read Dr Amy Bruckman's Wikipedia article just the intro of course Amy Susan Bruckman born 1965 |
| 1:40.7 | is a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology affiliated with the School of Interactive |
| 1:45.8 | Computing in the GVU Center she is best known for her pioneering research in the fields of online |
| 1:51.2 | communities and learning science in 1999 she was selected as one of MIT technology reviews TR-100 |
| 1:58.0 | awardees honoring 100 remarkable innovators under the age of 35 Bruckman currently directs the ELC lab |
| 2:05.9 | the UROC program and the web science initiative at Georgia Tech she has published dozens of scholarly |
| 2:12.8 | articles and peer-reviewed journals and has given invited presentations at high profile academic |
| 2:18.5 | conferences such as ICLS and CHI. Bruckman's most recent work often done in conjunction with |
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