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Digital Nation - Life On The Virtual Frontier | FRONTLINE. Mais qui sont les wikipédiens ? Résultats d’étude. Jimmy Wales and Andrew Keen Debate Web 2.0. Bio David Ewing Duncan David Ewing Duncan is an award-winning, best-selling author of six books and numerous essays, articles and short stories, and a television, radio and film producer and correspondent. He is the co-host of NPR's Biotech Nation. Duncan's most recent book is Experimental Man: What one man’s body reveals about his future, your health, and our toxic world (John Wiley). His last book was Masterminds: Genius, DNA and the Quest to Rewrite Life (Harper Perennial). Duncan is a Contributing Editor to Wired, and Discover, and a science columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, a commentator for NPR's Morning Edition and co-host of BioTech Nation on NPR. He also writes for Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, Outside, The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Washington Post Book World, and The New York Times, among others.

Andrew Keen Jimmy Wales Wales received his Bachelor's degree in finance from Auburn University and his Master's in finance from University of Alabama. Le phénomène Wikipédia : une utopie en marche. Y a-t-il un bon usage de Wikipédia ? Entretien. Idée pour Vidéo. Why I’m Talking About This For this week’s post, I discuss Wikipedia for two reasons; it is related to the broader topic of this blog and it is a big topic within academia. 1.

I am very interested in how the growth of the Internet and media convergence is changing the way we learn about the world. Wikipedia is one of the most visited websites in the world today, and as a result it is safe to assume a lot of people get their information about the rest of the world from the site. Also, many of my blog entries have links which go directly to Wikipedia. Speaking of, note the first hyperlink of this post, which takes you to the Wikipedia article about Wikipedia (very meta, I know). 2. When you see the logo above, what comes to mind? You might be thinking that Wikipedia is: 1. 2. Of course there are more than just two viewpoints of Wikipedia. You might be somebody who uses it just to find out about places to travel to, but not for academic information.

What is all the fuss about? 1. 2. Like this: Top 500 Global Sites (Wikipedia, 6)