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According to Wikipedia , Heather Ford is a South African researcher, blogger, journalist, social entrepreneur and open source activist who has worked in the field of Internet policy, law and management in South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. She is the founder of Creative Commons South Africa. She has studied the nature of power within Wikipedia and is a researcher at the University of Leeds.
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2010 2020 0 12.5 25 37.5 50 62.5 75 87.5 100 112.5 125 Published Papers ‘Anyone can edit’, not everyone does: Wikipedia’s infrastructure and the gender gap (2017) (92)Gender inequity in speaking opportunities at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (2018) (53)Women from some under-represented minorities are given too few talks at world’s largest Earth-science conference (2019) (41)Participation in Wikipedia's article deletion processes (2011) (41)Keeping Ottawa Honest—One Tweet at a Time? Politicians, Journalists, Wikipedians and Their Twitter Bots (2016) (40)Newsbots That Mediate Journalist and Audience Relationships (2019) (38)Barriers to the Localness of Volunteered Geographic Information (2015) (33)Getting to the source: where does Wikipedia get its information from? (2013) (33)"Writing up rather than writing down": becoming Wikipedia literate (2012) (26)Exploring the use of tablet computer-based electronic data capture system to assess patient reported measures among patients with chronic kidney disease: a pilot study (2017) (24)Trace Interviews: An Actor-Centered Approach (2015) (17)Provenance, power and place: Linked data and opaque digital geographies (2016) (16)Semantic Cities: Coded Geopolitics and the Rise of the Semantic Web (2015) (14)Fact factories: Wikipedia and the power to represent (2015) (12)Qualitative Political Communication| Trace Interviews: An Actor-Centered Approach (2015) (10)Wikipedia Sources: Managing Sources in Rapidly Evolving Global News Articles on the English Wikipedia (2012) (7)Africa and the Digital Information Commons: An Overview. (2006) (7)Rise of the Underdog (2019) (7)Infoboxes and cleanup tags: Artifacts of Wikipedia newsmaking (2015) (7)Evaluating symptom burden in kidney transplant recipients: validation of the revised Edmonton Symptom Assessment System for kidney transplant recipients – a single‐center, cross‐sectional study (2020) (7)Long-Term Patient-Reported Outcomes of Paraesophageal Hernia Repair (2017) (6)Beyond notification: Filling gaps in peer production projects (2018) (5)Wikipedia and the sum of all human information (2016) (3)African digital commons : a participant's Guide, 2005; a conceptual map of the people, projects and processes that contribute to the development of shared, networked knowledge across the African continent (2005) (3)‘Anyone can edit’, not everyone does: Wikipedia and the gender gap (2017) (3)Screening for symptoms of anxiety and depression in patients treated with renal replacement therapy: utility of the Edmonton Symptom Assessment System-Revised (2021) (2)Dialogue of the Deaf: Listening on Twitter and Democratic Responsiveness during the 2015 South African State of the Nation Address (2019) (2)Beyond reliability: An ethnographic study of Wikipedia sources (2012) (1)Accuracy of Promis-57 Depression and Anxiety Scales Compared to Legacy Instruments Among Kidney Transplant Recipients (2018) (1)The search for Wikipedia’s edges (2016) (1)Online reputation: it’s contextual (2012) (1)Onymous, pseudonymous, neither or both? (2013) (1)Why Wikipedia is no ‘proxy for culture’ (Part 1 of 3) (2013) (1)How accountable are digital platforms? (2019) (1)What does it mean to be a participant observer in a place like Wikipedia (2012) (1)Gender Inequity in Speaking Opportunities at a Major Scientific Conference (2018) (1)Christine Hine on virtual ethnography’s E3 Internet (2013) (1)Post Disciplinary Ethnography (2016) (0)Gender inequity in speaking opportunities at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (2018) (0)Isolated vs overlapping narratives: the story of an AFD (2013) (0)Faked photographs and objects of journalism in the late 19th Century (2013) (0)The Person in the (Big) Data (2016) (0)Gender and ethnic inequity in speaking opportunities at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (2019) (0)November 2013: Being a student ethnographer (2013) (0)Open Access can help making African research more visible on an international scale. (2018) (0)February 2013: The Openness Edition (2013) (0)Five Mixed Methods for Research in the (Big) Data Age (2016) (0)A sociologist’s guide to trust and design (2012) (0)Introducing Ethnography Matters (2011) (0)Ethnographies of Objects (2014) (0)#ethnobookclub The role of the ethnographic Self in the field: “Death Without Weeping” (2012) (0)Shakespeare and the Botanic Reformation (2019) (0)Ethnography of Wikipedia (2014) (0)Ethnography celebration and retrospective: We’re back! (2016) (0)800px-Second_Workshop-Iman_Ezz_El-Din’s_class-2 (2012) (0)Review: Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places, the Urban Wisdom of Jane Jacobs, Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life (2013) (0)An exchange platform for “trash”: Stories from the Object Ethnography Project (2013) (0)Where does ethnography belong? Thoughts on WikiSym 2012 (2012) (0)Final Proceedings of "Getting Started with Congestion Pricing: A Workshop for Local Partners" (2011) (0)From San Francisco to Cairo and back again: Collaborating across cultures (2012) (0)Ethnozine: November 2012 (Anniversary) Edition (2012) (0)Petits Méthodes de Big Data (2016) (0)Here's a sharper tool : let's get technical (2005) (0)L'ethnographie des robots (2012) (0)Small Methods for Big Data (2016) (0)800px-First_professor_orientation_in_Cairo_-_007 (2012) (0)Ethnomatters’ ‘Openness Edition’ (2013) (0)African Canadian dialysis patients are less likely to have a potential living donor identified compared to Caucasians (2017) (0)Adult attachment styles and psychosocial distress in patient with end stage kidney disease (ESKD) (2019) (0)Freeing the future : digital developments (2009) (0)Swahili Wikipedia places (2011) (0)Glorious Backfires in Digital Ethnography: Becoming an Urban Explorer (2013) (0)Creating Digital Publications for Mobile Learning (2014) (0)Creative Commons and access to education in the Commonwealth (2006) (0)Why doing ethnography is like walking around in other people’s shoes (2011) (0)De San Francisco au Caire et retour: Favoriser la collaboration entre les cultures (2012) (0)Framing data witnessing: Airwars and the production of authority in conflict monitoring (2023) (0)Enacting conflict, controversy, and aggression in online spaces (2013) (0)The ethnography of robots (2012) (0)August 2013: Ethnographies of Objects (2013) (0)Building the African Commons : let's get technical (2005) (0)Data conversations: Can ethnographers do numbers? (2011) (0)SEMANTIC MEDIA: POLITICAL ECONOMY PERSPECTIVES ON PLATFORMIZED FACT PRODUCTION (2023) (0)Stimulating the local : let's get technical (2005) (0)Influences on Shakespeare's Fairy Mythology in a Midsummer Night's Dream (1996) (0)The tools we use: Supporting Wikipedia analysis (2012) (0)Objects of Journalism: Bar Rags and the AIDS Virus (2013) (0)More Papers This paper list is powered by the following services:
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