Interesting. I suspect that even among verbal elites, there are further splits in the type of consumption. Some people are heavy on reading books since they want a full, cohesive story of what’s happening, whereas others consume information in smaller bits, building pieces of knowledge across different domains. The latter would probably use Wikipedia more.
Similarly, some people like opinion-rich material whereas others want factual summaries more. The factual summary camp probably uses Wikipedia more.
However, I don’t know if there are easy ways of segmenting users, i.e., I don’t know if there are websites or communities that are much more dominated by users who prefer longer content, or users who prefer factual summaries.
Interesting. I suspect that even among verbal elites, there are further splits in the type of consumption. Some people are heavy on reading books since they want a full, cohesive story of what’s happening, whereas others consume information in smaller bits, building pieces of knowledge across different domains. The latter would probably use Wikipedia more.
Similarly, some people like opinion-rich material whereas others want factual summaries more. The factual summary camp probably uses Wikipedia more.
However, I don’t know if there are easy ways of segmenting users, i.e., I don’t know if there are websites or communities that are much more dominated by users who prefer longer content, or users who prefer factual summaries.