Topic 5: Why I Hate Wikipedia

“Why I hate Wikipedia” Lecture notes:
Wikipedia was discussed for a long time and the fact that anyone can edit the articles on the site. I personally haven’t used Wikipedia before this subject therefore I have not much experience or understanding of it.

How do we know the truth?
Correspondence theory: Just facts- Observable, measurable
Coherence theory: Does it fit together and make sense?
Per formative theory: I do declare
Social theory: What can we agree on?
Journalists rely on 2 authorative sources with the same story to establish a claim to the truth, how valid is this if the sources are processing information from the same pool?
Necessary truth: 2+2=4
Conditional Truth: It is/is not raining outside
The Matrix opens up difficult questions about the certainty of the sense data that we rely on to make our observations of the world.
Do the corporate media have an influence on our identities and how they develop in relation to how film and T.V. production techniques develop?
Virtual reality: Virtual Rationality
New possible ways of viewing the world (virtual reality) where the line between reality and appearance is so blurred that there is no discernible difference between the 2.

Tutorial Task: Intervene on Wikipedia
Article 1… 1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entourage_%28TV_series%29#Upcoming_Season
Is this an accurate article?
This article is accurate in the fact that it lists all the actors correctly and its about the upcoming 5th season of the show.Does it cover all the basic facts that you'd need to understand this topic?
Yes it’s a basic topic so the article covers the basic need to know.Does this article follow the Wikipedia guidelines for useful articles?
yesIs this article fair and balanced, or is it biased towards a particular side or argument?This is more promoting the new season and discussing the reason the writers have included certain things in the new season.
What changes would you make to this article to improve it and make it useful for the wider wikipedia community? I wouldn’t change it.

Reading: Jorge Buis Borges, Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Terius (1940)
Jorge Buis Borges discusses the way that definitions in the encyclopaedia were changed and a fictitious place Uqbar was made up, a kind of imagined reality, evidence was found of this place which then questions the reality of the definition. Was it just fabrication of truth at a societal level? It questions how well we know the truth and what makes the truth the truth?