Thursday, June 30
3:25-3:45 PM
PDT
Pavilion Ballroom A

Graduate Student Use of Wikipedia

Best Practices Session ID: 48691
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    Yu-mei Wang
    University of Alabama at Birmingham

Abstract: This presentation contends that student voices should be heard in discussing controversies concerning Wikipedia use and its academic values. How do students use Wikipedia? What do student perceive the quality of Wikipedia? What are reasons for students to use Wikipedia? This presentation reports a study designed to investigate how graduate students relate to Wikipedia in terms of their uses, their perceptions about the quality of its information and their rationales why they choose to use Wikipedia.

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