For my midterm I would like to do project #3 on transparency in media. I would especially like to focus on transparency on Wikipedia. A Cal Tech student created a data mining application, called Wikipedia Scanner, which traces the IP addresses on thousands of anonymous Wikipedia edits. In hundreds of cases the IP addresses can be traced back to the corporate headquarters of the companies described in the posts. I would like to investigate further the ethical issues of these practices and their effects on the reliability of Wikipedia.
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