Wikipedia and instinct: challenges of web collaboration

Authors

  • Francisco José Paoliello Pimenta Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora - UFJF, Juiz de Fora, MG
  • Franciane Tavares de Moraes Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/fem.2019.212.12

Abstract

Wikipedia is an Internet portal that offers encyclopedic content created by the users themselves, and although widely consulted, it has been recording a decrease in the number of collaborators since 2009, a movement different from other platforms of this type. Among the possible explanations for this phenomenon, we hypothesized that its aesthetics, operating principles and norms are unnecessarily complex and inhibit the instinctive processes which, according to Charles Peirce’s Pragmaticism, would be necessary for these cognitive operations. To test it, we conducted a user survey that pointed to a low level of awareness of these issues and a possible loss of the platform’s original collaboration characteristics.

Keywords: Communication. Instinto. Wikipedia. Pragmaticism.

Author Biographies

Francisco José Paoliello Pimenta, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora - UFJF, Juiz de Fora, MG

Doutor em Comunicação e Semiótica - PUCSP

Professor Titular Facom UFJF

Professor Permanente PPGCom UFJF

Franciane Tavares de Moraes, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

Mestre em Comunicação e Sociedade - PPGCom UFJF

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Published

2019-10-12

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 2 (2019): May/August

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