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Volume 16 ,  Issue 3  (May + June 2009) table of contents
Design Fiction
SECTION: Three very different design paths table of contents
Pages 42-45  
Year of Publication: 2009
ISSN:1072-5520
Author
Joseph Reagle  New York University
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

Joseph Reagle's work on Wikipedia and its predecessors opened my eyes to a fascinating history. I'm delighted he has provided this account of the origin of the most interesting digital object since the Web itself. ---Jonathan Grudin


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