⚡️ Reboot ft. Amy Bruckman

​Reboot is a little obsessed with Wikipedia (see Lucas Gelfond on its contributor system and an interview with Wikimedia engineer Hal Triedman on transparency in machine learning). One recurring theme is the legitimacy and veracity of information on Wikipedia, and how its contribution ecosystem might bolster or inhibit article quality—so I’m really excited to announce our next guest has written an entire book about this.

​Should You Believe Wikipedia? explores the relationship between internet communities and truth-making — as applied to Wikipedia, of course, but also so much more.

​Join us next Thursday for a Q&A on what Wikipedia can tell us about knowledge on the internet.

​Dr. Amy Bruckman is Regents' Professor and Senior Associate Chair in the School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. She received her PhD from the Epistemology and Learning Group at the MIT Media Lab in 1997. She researches social computing, with interests in collaboration, social movements, content moderation, and internet research ethics. She is also an ACM Fellow, and a member of the ACM SIGCHI Academy.