| In the human knowledge reference system,there are often different names that refer to the same thing.For example,Beijing and Peiping both refer to the capital of China,which leads to a difficult problem that the large Internet encyclopedias have to deal with: How does the encyclopedia platform link different names into the entry of the same thing when users with different language habits search by different names or words? In order to solve this problem,Wikipedia uses a computational link technology to redirect different web search requests to a unique location agreed by the platform community,which also causes a series of community discourse power struggles,that is,in the practice of redirection compilation,for multiple names of the same thing,which names deserve to be created for redirection? Which entry should it lead to after creation? From this,we can see that redirection is not only a technical mechanism of large databases,but also closely related to community negotiation,game and agreement.In other words,redirection is not only a scientific and technical term,but also a political game term.Therefore,from the perspective of political game,this paper first examines how Wikipedia community negotiates,talks and compromises for a long time to agree on the compilation policy of redirection.Secondly,this paper explores how the Wikipedia community strategically uses the redirection policy to serve its own knowledge legitimacy by taking Afghan related articles in Chinese and English Wikipedia as an example.Finally,on this basis,this paper rethinks Berger’s theory of knowledge sociology,and further discusses the methods and characteristics of human knowledge construction in the digital age.It is found that Wikipedia redirection is not only a transparent pure technology tool,but also a product of social construction and political game,which has participated in shaping the largest human Internet encyclopedia--Wikipedia.On the one hand,Wikipedia establishes the community specification about redirected editing through the self-organizing specification of digital community.On the other hand,the wiki community strategically resorts to redirection rules to compete for intellectual legitimacy.Based on the redirection rule convention and the redirection application game,the redirection politics is established.The knowledge construction methods of redirection politics include establishing rules,modifying editing and maintaining authority.The construction of digital knowledge by redirected politics is reflected in the following ways: constructing public knowledge by building correlation structure and reconstructing the concept of socialization;Updating the concept of "institutionalization" by establishing rules and auditing mechanisms;The concept of "justification" is supplemented by built-in discussion and declaration of consensus. |
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