Systemic Bias Wikipedia

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The concept of youth is found in almost all societies and is marked as a unique period of time. Sociologists have defined youth as a socially constructed phase between childhood and adulthood that is unlinked to age categories and can be fluid in structure. Most importantly experiences surrounding youth, which vary across time, space and social groupings, are characterized by a mix of semi-dependence and independence (Furlong 2013, 3). The struggle for and achievement of full autonomy varies substantially across time and social divisions which allows for comparison between Global North and Global South experiences to be discussed and analyzed. However a variety of frameworks have developed within Youth Studies to describe the experiences faced …show more content…

According to the Wikipedia page Wikipedia: Systemic Bias “Wikipedia has a systemic bias in favor of white, male, young, and educated individuals and the topics and perspectives that editors from this demographic favour” (Wales 2012). Wherein systematic bias takes root in the form of gender, racial, linguistic and spatial bias that excluded cover on perspectives that related to marginalized demographics. Marginalized demographics include people without internet access, non-English speaking, topics that do not have reliable sources, and lack free time to edit. Obvious examples on Wikipedia that demonstrate systemic bias are articles related to gender oriented topics, for example articles on women in film and men’s liberation movement are non-existent and stub articles respectively. Articles that do not reflect global perspective, more specifically Global South/Southern hemisphere ideologies, are also inflicted with systemic bias on multiple fronts, including lack of gendered and class difference, general lack of reliable sources/coverage, inability to access the internet and or censorship (Wikipedia:Systemic bias). Although systemic is rampant throughout Wikipedia many projects are being created and worked on in order to negate the effects of systemic …show more content…

The very existence of the class demonstrates that systemic bias can be countered on multiple fronts, but most importantly by providing a global perspective to a topic that is not well covered from a Global South youth perspective. Almost every single participant in the class is female which also enables the dismantling of gendered systemic bias. I am one of the many females in the class and I hope to contribute the best possible scholarly materials in order to disrupt systemic bias (Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias). Although my gender enables me to provide a marginalized perspective, my work may still have enable systemic bias because I am white, educated, have a white collar upbringing, and reside in the Global North. There are multiple ways in which I can avoid systemic bias in my creation of Youth in Mongolia page such as reading a diverse array of sources to gain perspectives and issues that concern Mongolians, ask for other Wikipedia editors to edit and critique my work, linking to other related pages and looking for non-western

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