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Wikipedia, Critical Social Theory, and the Possibility of Rational DiscourseFootnote¹
1. This article extends research presented at the Hawaiian International Conference of Systems Sciences in January 2007 (CitationHansen, Berente, & Lyytinen, 2007).

Sean Hansen Department of Information Systems, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Nicholas Berente Department of Information Systems, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Kalle Lyytinen Department of Information Systems, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Pages 38-59 | Received 20 Sep 2006, Accepted 23 Jul 2008, Published online: 08 Jan 2009

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