Editing Wikipedia, Discovering Inquiry: Collaboration in a Modern and Contemporary African Art History Course
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Maggie Murphy, Associate Professor, Art & Design Librarian (Creator)
- Elizabeth A. Perrill, Associate Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: The authors discuss a scaffolded, semester-long Wikipedia-editing project developed by alibrarian and art history professor for a modern and contemporary African art history seminar.Their goals for the project were to introduce critical information literacy concepts intodiscussions about art information on the Wikipedia platform with their students, as well as toencourage them to see themselves as information creators. While course participants were taskedwith adding research-based content that complied with Wikipedia’s point of view, they alsogenerated many ideas for scholarly inquiry into their chosen artist’s life and work—a processwith which undergraduate students, as emerging art historians, often struggle when they areassigned a traditional paper.
Editing Wikipedia, Discovering Inquiry: Collaboration in a Modern and Contemporary African Art History Course
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- Publication
- “Editing Wikipedia, Discovering Inquiry: Collaboration in a Modern and Contemporary African Art History Course,” co-authored with Maggie Murphy, Christina Kelly, Alexandra Gaal, and Maya Simmons. Art Documentation. https://doi.org/10.1086/714390
- Language: English
- Date: 2021
- Keywords
- Wikipedia, inquiry, research, art history