“The neutrality of this article is disputed”: a comparison of Markale massacres articles across Wikipedia’s language versions Cover Image

“Neutralna tačka gledišta ovog članka je osporena”: Usporedna analiza članaka o masakrima na Markalama u različitim jezičnim verzijama online enciklopedije Wikipedija
“The neutrality of this article is disputed”: a comparison of Markale massacres articles across Wikipedia’s language versions

Author(s): Vedada Baraković, Mirza Mahmutović
Subject(s): Media studies, Military history, Studies in violence and power, Victimology, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: Fakultet političkih nauka - Univerzitet u Sarajevu
Keywords: media and memory studies; Wikipedia; Digital Method Initiative; new media ecology; war in Bosnia and Herzegovina;

Summary/Abstract: This study investigates how disturbing memories are mediated in the environment of collaborative platforms driven by consensus-building processes, such as the Wikipedia project. In accordance with the proposal suggested by a group of researchers geathered around the Digital Method Initiative, Wikipedia is used as a “cultural reference” to study the politics of memory and reconciliation, using a form of web content analysis. This paper presents, in the form of a case study, the results of comparative analysis of articles about Markale massacres across Bosnian, Croatian, English, Serbo- Croatian, and Serbian language versions on Wikipedia.

  • Issue Year: VI/2017
  • Issue No: 3-4
  • Page Range: 59-85
  • Page Count: 27
  • Language: Bosnian