Internal:Speakers/BO1/details
< Internal:Speakers | BO1
thoughts for the project
- standard model for w:meme distribution:
- government controlled media - filters for information selection
- corporate media in capitalist countries - filters studied by Herman and Chomsky
- w:positive feedbacks
- w:negative feedbacks
- wikidom (wikis and especially wikimedia wikis)
- entry of raw observations as a fundamental need in order to obtain neutrality, not just w:NPOV
- different path types from raw observations (first-hand reports) to wikimedia wiki articles
- w:positive feedbacks in wikidom
- (value positive for going towards "truth") w:NPOV on wiki enables sensitivity to minorities with convincing arguments so that these exponentially grow despite being dissident points of view
- (value negative) conflicts can grow due to positive feedback - successively stronger attacks grow exponentially until either the system breaks down or a w:negative feedback becomes important to dampen it
- w:negative feedbacks in wikidom
- w:NPOV provides a negative feedback loop to dampen edit wars
- if hypothesised positive/negative feedbacks are correct, these should be measurable from the statistics
- method
- Is there an intrinsic methodical difficulty in that the researcher decides, according to his/her own POV, which dissident POVs are correct and correctly (or wrongly) amplified by positive feedbacks, and which are conspiracy theories (or plain rubbish) and correctly (or wrong) dampened by negative feedbacks? Maybe a reasonably objective measure such as absolute or relative numbers of people killed/affected? (Cf Herman and Chomsky with Cambodia vs East Timor in their analysis.)
- possible memes with measurable evolution and pos/neg feedbacks
- maybe some ideas from http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Deletionist_Wikipedians
- maybe ideas from w:List of alternative, speculative and disputed theories
- do increases/reductions in an article's length represent the effect of positive/negative feedbacks (statistically)?
- See also: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_sociology
- data
- results
- conclusions (are the hypothesised feedbacks consistent with the empirical dynamics of the data?)
- method