Pobrecito hablador. Conflictos por la libre participación en una comunidad colaborativaetnografía simétrica de un weblog colectivo dedicado a la producción de noticias mediante filtrado

Abstract

The present study is the result of an ethnographic research in a cooperative weblog, an open community where anybody can participate. The community's objective of news's productio relies in a colaborative system of filtering thouigh which the community hierarchize users's contributions. Through this filtering system and through the registry mechanism (by which users create a permanent identity) the community segments information's visibility and credibility depending on the user's identity, whether he is a registered user or an anonomous one. The study demonstrates how the filtering processes not only hierarchize the information but organize and structre the community.