Jointly They Edit: Examining the Impact of Community Identification on Political Interaction in Wikipedia

摘要: Background In their 2005 study, Adamic and Glance coined the memorable phrase ‘divided they blog’, referring to a trend of cyberbalkanization in political blogosphere, with liberal conservative blogs tending link other similar slant, not one another. As discussion activity increasingly moves online, power framing discourses is shifting from mass media social media. Methodology/Principal Findings Continued examination interactions online critical, we extend this line research by examining activities users within Wikipedia community. First, examined how choose display affiliation. Next, analyzed patterns cross-party interaction community participation among those proclaiming In contrast previous analyses media, did find strong trends indicating preference interact members same party community. Conclusions/Significance Our results indicate that who proclaim affiliation tend identity as ‘Wikipedian’ even more loudly. It seems shared ‘being Wikipedian’ may be enough triumph over potentially divisive facets personal identity, such