Cultural Anthropology Through the Lens of Wikipedia - A Comparison of Historical Leadership Networks in the English, Chinese, Japanese and German Wikipedia
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In this paper we study the differences in historical worldview between Western and Eastern cultures, represented through the English, Chinese, Japanese, and German Wikipedia. In particular, we analyze the historical networks of the World’s leaders since the beginning of written history, comparing them in the four different Wikipedias.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1502.05256 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014