1. Was macht die Macht im neuen Netz? Zur diskursanalytischen Rekonstruktion der Regierungsprozesse in Wikipedia Workshop: Das neue Netz? Bestandsaufnahme & Perspektiven Otto-Friedrich-Universität, Bamberg _____________________________________________________ 22. September 2007 Christian Pentzold Professur Medienkommunikation – Technische Universität Chemnitz

10. Wikipedia, Emergence, and The Wisdom of the Crowds; 2.05.2005 (06:36) – 9.05.2005 (09:43) Beginn, Werbung, Erklärung, Argumentation  Einbezug aller, realistische Diktion, Analogieschluss All Wikipedians, The Wisdom of the Crowds; basic premise is that crowds of relatively ignorant individuals make better decisions than small groups of experts; I’m sure that everyone here agrees with this as Wikipedia is run this way and Wikipedia is a success […] similarly, ants display emergence because an ant colony can accomplish things that each individual ant cannot even conceive Alex Krupp 1 Gegenanalogie, lange Erfahrung mit dieser Deutung, vertritt scheinbar schon länger andere Ansicht  jetzt Gelegenheit, diese wieder einzubringen Central theme when I give public talks is precisely that WP is not run this way, and that WP is not an instance of “The Wisdom of the Crowds” Jimmy Wales 3 Analogie abgelehnt, Autoren vergessen  Ertrag, Bewusstsein, Arbeit Isn’t the Wikipedia an example of collaboration, not emergence? Emergence implies that the large-scale behaviour is qualitatively to than the small-scale behaviour; WP is composed of many articles, which are all similar to each other  you would be hard-pressed to tell whether Tim Starling 2