A short history of knowledge, from feudalism to the internet.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Dreger, Alice Domurat, on-screen presenter.

Big Think, publisher.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wikipedia.

Knowledge, Theory of--History.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Internet research.

Peer review.

Knowledge management.

Genre:

Educational films.

Short films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (5 minutes)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Big Think, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

Crowdsourcing as an idea isn't anything new, says historian and sex researcher Alice Dreger. She tells us about the history of public gathering of information from the medieval era to today. The enlightenment period was a big boon to the arts and sciences, but also an even bigger help to how knowledge is organized and distributed. Is Wikipedia, with its checks and balances and appeal to honesty, more like the founding fathers' idea of America than the overtly libertarian wild west that the rest of the internet has turned into? It might seem like a leap, but Alice's position here is full of interesting suggestions like that. Alice's new book is Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar's Search for Justice.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed July 5, 2022).

OCLC:

1340916072