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From YouTube: SOCCYBSEC WG: The Wisdom of Debating Crowds: Science, Wikipedia, and Twitter

Description

Could debates push forward collective understanding? If possible, how do we make it happen? The analysis of large datasets documenting a century of scientific debates through criticizing and endorsing citations between millions of scholars and two decades of edit battles between Wikipedia contributors provides insights into the social mechanisms of debates and informs institutional arrangements to facilitate knowledge creation from debates on social media.

Date: 3/5/20
Presenter: Lingfei Wu
Institution: University of Pittsburgh