Paško Bilić from the Department for Culture and Communication, Institute for Development and International Relations (IRMO) published an article titled ˝Searching for a centre that holds˝ in the network society: social construction of knowledge on, and with, English Wikipedia in New Media & Society journal by SAGE Publications. The journal is indexed in Web of Science (WoS) and ranked ninth in the field of communication by Thomson Reuters. The paper presents parts of his doctoral thesis that were presented at the Canadian Sociological Association conference and the international symposium WikiSym. The author combines the theoretical tradition of sociology of knowledge with media studies and uses qualitative, ethnographic content analysis. Taking Wikipedia as an example, he analyzes contemporary online communication and social and organizational dynamics of such content production. The author also questions the global, social relevance of Wikipedia as an alternative information source on contemporary events.

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