ABSTRACT
Sengul-Jones provides a compelling description of the feminist affordances provided and limited by a site such as Wikipedia – much vaunted in its early days as a democratic platform for collective intelligence – while also bringing to light the ways in which the platform has reinscribed masculinist approaches to knowledge production and created a male-dominated, white, middle-class community of Wikipedians. Like all the authors in this volume, though, Sengul-Jones uses these observations not simply to bemoan the current situation but also as a call to intervene, detailing concrete ways in which instructors engaging in feminist pedagogical practices can both analyze and participate in Wikipedia editing as a conduit to understanding asymmetrical and shifting power relations in our current information age.
