Coercion or empowerment? Moderation of content in Wikipedia as ‘essentially contested’ bureaucratic rules
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عنوان ژورنال: Ethics and Information Technology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1388-1957,1572-8439
DOI: 10.1007/s10676-012-9289-7