Guides: Suggestions and Guidelines for Creating Wikipedia Assignments: Further Reading

Further Reading Worth Assigning and Discussing in Class

Al-Shehari, Khaled and Al-Sharafi, Abdul Gabbar. “Negotiating Wikipedia Narratives about the Yemeni Crisis: Who Are the Alleged Supporters of the Houthis?” Media, War & Conflict, 15:2 (2022), pp. 183-201.
Barbe, Lionel and Severo, Marta. Wikipédia: Objet de Médiation et de Transmission des Savoirs. Paris: Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre 2021.
Bridges, Laurie M.; Pun, Raymond; and Arteaga, Roberto A., eds. Wikipedia and Academic Libraries: A Global Project. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Maize Books 2021.
Cattapan, Alana. “(Re)Writing ‘Feminism in Canada’: Wikipedia in the Feminist Classroom,” Feminist Teacher, 22:2 (2012), pp. 125-36.
Ford, Heather. Writing the Revolution: Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital Age. Cambridge: MIT Press 2022.
Gordon, Rachel. “Study Finds Wikipedia Influences Judicial Behavior,” MIT News, July 27, 2022, https://news.mit.edu/2022/study-finds-wikipedia-influences-judicial-behavior-0727
Grabowski, Jan and Klein, Shira. “Wikipedia’s Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust,” The Journal of Holocaust Research, 2023, DOI 10.1080/25785648.2023.2168939
Jemielniak, Dariusz. Common Knowledge: An Ethnography of Wikipedia. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014.
Kumar, Sangeet. “A River by Any Other Name: Ganga/Ganges and the Postcolonial Politics of Knowledge on Wikipedia,” Information, Communication & Society, 20:6 (2017), pp. 809-24.
McDowell, Zachary, and Vetter, Matthew. Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality. Abingdon, UK: Routledge 2022.
Ramjohn, Ian. “Decolonizing Wikipedia,” in Using Open Educational Resources to Promote Social Justice, ed. C.J. Ivory and Angela Pashia. Chicago: American Library Association, 2022, pp. 249-62.
Reagle, Joseph and Koerner, Jackie, eds. Wikipedia@20: Stories of an Incomplete Revolution. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2020.
Sharkey, Heather J. “Wikipedia and Public-Facing Scholarship in the Classroom,” Wiki Education, https://wikiedu.org/blog/2020/12/01/wikipedia-and-public-facing-scholarship-in-the-classroom/, December 1, 2020.
Shuttleworth, Mark. “Translation and the Production of Knowledge in ‘Wikipedia’: Chronicling the Assassination of Boris Nemtsov,” Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, 38 (2018), pp. 231-63.
Vetter, Matthew A. "Teaching Wikipedia: Appalachian Rhetoric and the Encyclopedic Politics of Representation," College English, 80:5 (2018), pp. 397-422.