Dr. Thomas Leitch discusses the origins of, the questions of bias and authority within, and how to approach using Wikipedia. These questions and their answers can be applied to other sources of information to help us reflect on how and why we use and rely on them.
Dr. Leitch is an English professor at the University of Delaware, where his primary focus is on film studies. He is the author of the 2014 book Wikipedia U: Knowledge, Authority, and Liberal Education in the Digital Age.
