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COVID-19 and the Social Organization of Knowledge in Wikipedia: A Study of Social Representations

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dc.abstract.enPurpose The paper aims to present the development of conceptualization of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) based on associations with other articles on English edition of Wikipedia. The main goal of the paper is to study the social organization of knowledge about COVID-19 within the Wikipedia community of practice. Design/methodology/approach The methodological approach taken in this study was based on the application of Moscovici's theory of social representations to Wikipedia's knowledge organization system (KOS). Internal links in the Wikipedia article about COVID-19 were considered anchors in its social representations. Each link in the introductory part of the article was considered an indicator of the semantic relationship between COVID-19 and other concepts from Wikipedia's knowledge base. The subject of this study was links extracted from all revisions of the COVID-19 article between February and September 2020. Qualitative and quantitative analyses were performed on these conceptual structures using both synchronic and diachronic approaches. Findings It was found that the evolution of anchors in the Wikipedia article on COVID-19 was in line with the mechanism of symbolic coping related to infectious disease. It went through stages of divergence, convergence and normalization. It shows that this mechanism governs the social organization of knowledge related to COVID-19 on Wikipedia. Originality/value No studies have been devoted to the image of COVID-19 as presented by the evolution of links in Wikipedia and its implications for knowledge organization (KO).
dc.affiliationUniwersytet Warszawski
dc.contributor.authorWłodarczyk, Bartłomiej
dc.contributor.authorRoszkowski, Marcin
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-24T20:54:13Z
dc.date.available2024-01-24T20:54:13Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.financePublikacja bezkosztowa
dc.description.number2
dc.description.volume78
dc.identifier.doi10.1108/JD-01-2021-0006
dc.identifier.issn0022-0418
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.uw.edu.pl//handle/item/103857
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JD-01-2021-0006/full/html
dc.languageeng
dc.pbn.affiliationsocial communication and media studies
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Documentation
dc.relation.pages242-263
dc.rightsClosedAccess
dc.sciencecloudnosend
dc.subject.enSocial representations
dc.subject.enWikipedia
dc.subject.enKnowledge organization systems
dc.subject.enCOVID-19
dc.subject.enSocial knowledge organization
dc.subject.enWikilinks
dc.titleCOVID-19 and the Social Organization of Knowledge in Wikipedia: A Study of Social Representations
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typePublication