Hi Z. Blace, you can watch the recording of this showcase on youtube [1]. Also, you can find the recordings of previous Research Showcases in this collection [2].
Best, Martin [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otN3H-hIImQ [2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhV3K_DS5YfLQLgwU3oDFiGaU3K7pUVoW On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 7:39 PM Željko Blaće <[email protected]> wrote: > Overlapping with Art+Feminism session presenting research on almost the > same topic :-/ > > Again - calendar synchronization and wikimedia are not at level needed :-( > > Best Z. Blace > > > On Wednesday, July 21, 2021, Janna Layton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The Research Showcase will be starting in about 30 minutes. > > > > On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 4:59 PM Janna Layton <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> Hello all, > >> > >> The July Research Showcase will take place on July 21, 16:30 UTC (9:30am > >> PT/ 12:30pm ET/ 18:30pm CEST). The theme is the effects of campaigns to > >> close content gaps on Wikipedia, and speakers will be Kai Zhu from > McGill > >> University and Isabelle Langrock from the University of Pennsylvania. > >> > >> Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otN3H-hIImQ > >> > >> Talk 1 > >> Speaker: Kai Zhu (McGill University, Canada) > >> Title: Addressing Information Poverty on Wikipedia > >> Abstract: Open collaboration platforms have fundamentally changed the > way > >> that knowledge is produced, disseminated, and consumed. In these > systems, > >> contributions arise organically with little to no central governance. > >> Although such decentralization provides many benefits, a lack of broad > >> oversight and coordination can leave questions of information poverty > and > >> skewness to the mercy of the system’s natural dynamics. Unfortunately, > we > >> still lack a basic understanding of the dynamics at play in these > systems > >> and specifically, how contribution and attention interact and propagate > >> through information networks. We leverage a large-scale natural > experiment > >> to study how exogenous content contributions to Wikipedia articles > affect > >> the attention that they attract and how that attention spills over to > other > >> articles in the network. Results reveal that exogenously added content > >> leads to significant, substantial, and long-term increases in both > content > >> consumption and subsequent contributions. Furthermore, we find > significant > >> attention spillover to downstream hyperlinked articles. Through both > >> analytical estimation and empirically informed simulation, we evaluate > >> policies to harness this attention contagion to address the problem of > >> information poverty and skewness. We find that harnessing attention > >> contagion can lead to as much as a twofold increase in the total > attention > >> flow to clusters of disadvantaged articles. Our findings have important > >> policy implications for open collaboration platforms and information > >> networks. > >> > >> Talk 2 > >> Speaker: Isabelle Langrock (University of Pennsylvania, USA) > >> Title: Quantifying and Assessing the Impact of Two Feminist > Interventions > >> Abstract: Wikipedia has a well-known gender divide affecting its > >> biographical content. This bias not only shapes social perceptions of > >> knowledge, but it can also propagate beyond the platform as its contents > >> are leveraged to correct misinformation, train machine-learning tools, > and > >> enhance search engine results. What happens when feminist movements > >> intervene to try to close existing gaps? In this talk, we present a > recent > >> study of two popular feminist interventions designed to counteract > digital > >> knowledge inequality. Our findings show that the interventions are > >> successful at adding content about women that would otherwise be > missing, > >> but they are less successful at addressing several structural biases > that > >> limit the visibility of women within Wikipedia. We argue for more > granular > >> and cumulative analysis of gender divides in collaborative environments > and > >> identify key areas of support that can further aid the feminist > movements > >> in closing Wikipedia’s gender gaps. > >> > >> -- > >> Janna Layton (she/her) > >> Administrative Associate - Product & Technology > >> Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > >> > > > > > > -- > > Janna Layton (she/her) > > Administrative Associate - Product & Technology > > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > -- Martin Gerlach Research Scientist Wikimedia Foundation
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