Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness

Few virtues are as celebrated in contemporary culture as openness. Rooted in software culture and carrying more than a whiff of Silicon Valley technical utopianism, openness—of decision-making, data, and organizational structure—is seen as the cure for many problems in politics and business.   But what does openness mean, and what would a political theory of openness look like? With Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness , Nathaniel Tkacz uses Wikipedia, the most prominent product of open o