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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Reagle, Jr, Joseph

Titel

Do as I do: authorial leadership in wikipedia

Ist Teil von

• International Symposium on Wikis: Proceedings of the 2007 international symposium on Wikis; 21-25 Oct. 2007, 2007, p.143-156

Ort / Verlag

ACM

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

ACM Digital Library Complete

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In seemingly egalitarian collaborative on-line communities, like Wikipedia, there is often a paradoxical, or perhaps merely playful, use of the title "Benevolent Dictator" for leaders. I explore discourse around the use of this title so as to address how leadership works in open content communities. I first review existing literature on "emergent leadership" and then relate excerpts from community discourse on how leadership is understood, performed, and discussed by Wikipedians. I conclude by integrating concepts from existing literature and my own findings into a theory of "authorial" leadership.