I believe that the most acurate real manifestation of this "online grafitti"the the website defacement. Otherwise, any communal webpage infrastructure will fit the graffiti Idea. But, the point it that off-line grafitti is, fundamentaly a kind of ILEGAL social deviance, the owner of the walls don't want the graffiti ink in it. I don't think that wikipedia has somethin iligal to itself in its context, I don't think that wikipedia walls don't want to be furfil of content. MAYBE, when someone post deliberately, false contet on wikipedia, this could be seen as a king of grafitti, but I'm affreid that this would be a very dificul scietific object to investigate. Best Regards Ariel On 4/20/06, Alex Halavais <halavais@gmail.com> wrote:
:). I defined Wikipedia as a "temple built out of grafitti" for a reporter doing a story on accuracy and wikipedia (see http://theory.isthereason.com/?p=810).
- Alex
On 4/20/06, Andrea Forte <aforte@cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, M.B.Gaved wrote:
sounds interesting. Like Cameron, I'd ask about what definition you
have for "online graffitti"
<snip>
- defacement of existing online content?
By this definition, Wikipedia has a rich history of textual "graffiti." :-) Actually, I don't know much about graffiti, but it seems that there are many kinds present in Wikipedia, from the "kilroy was here" variety, to malicious defacing, to elaborate and sometimes pretty or interesting little stories and passages that simply don't belong.
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