I felt quite uncomfortable posting on Wikipedia. I don’t think of myself as an expert, or even an amateur, on authorship. I’m not sure I would feel comfortable posting anything on Wikipedia. I lack the creative power to contribute to a working definition of author. When looking over the history and realizing the last few posts were by classmates, I realized that I am guilty of wanting experts in the field to give me the information. I think my classmates’ posts were good, better than mine, however, I feel a sense of distrust for Wikipedia in general. It is difficult to let go of that past sense of academia, where experts are the only experts. I will come around to this change as well.
I do feel comfortable with fan sites and fan fiction. An idea of collaboration in fiction is intriguing. The collective intelligence of imagined worlds and characters adds to the fun and community feeling of being a fan. Adding to any kind of enyclopedia, such as Wikipedia, feels fraudulent. I realize the ideas from old style research and knowledge will continue to change and be influenced by non-scholarly experts and I accept those changes. I don’t feel comfortable participating.
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