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Zachary J. McDowell

Observed names: McDowell, Zachary, McDowell, Zachary J., Zachary J McDowell, Zachary James McDowell, Zachary McDowell
ORCID: 0000-0001-9666-7587
Observed ORCID: 0000-0001-9666-7587
OpenAlex ID: A5086737591
Monetizing a Meme: YouTube, Content ID, and the Harlem Shake
2016 · Michael Soha, Zachary J. McDowell · Social Media + Society · 66
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From Opportunities to Outcomes: The Wikipedia-Based Writing Assignment
2019 · Matthew A. Vetter, Zachary J. McDowell, et al. · Computers & composition/Computers and composition · 57
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Disagreeing about What's Fair: Exploring the Relationship between Perceptions of Justice and Employee Dissent
2008 · Jeffrey W. Kassing, Zachary J. McDowell · Communication Research Reports · 53
It Takes a Village to Combat a Fake News Army: Wikipedia’s Community and Policies for Information Literacy
2020 · Zachary J. McDowell, Matthew A. Vetter · Social Media + Society · 43
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Wikipedia as Open Educational Practice: Experiential Learning, Critical Information Literacy, and Social Justice
2022 · Zachary J. McDowell, Matthew A. Vetter · Social Media + Society · 38
Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality
2021 · Zachary J. McDowell, Matthew A. Vetter · Routledge eBooks · 38
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Wikipedia and AI: Access, representation, and advocacy in the age of large language models
2024 · Zachary J McDowell · Convergence The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies · 26
The (not so) secret governors of the internet: Morality policing and platform politics
2023 · Zachary J McDowell, Katrin Tiidenberg · Convergence The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies · 16
The machine question: Critical perspectives on AI, robots, and ethics
2014 · Zachary J McDowell · New Media & Society · 13
An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability
2025 · Matthew A. Vetter, Jialei Jiang, et al. · AI & Society · 12
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A spectrum of surveillance: Charting functions of epistemic inequality across EdTech platforms in the post-COVID-19 era
2023 · Matthew Vetter, Zachary McDowell · Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice · 11
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Fast “Truths” and Slow Knowledge; Oracular Answers and Wikipedia’s Epistemology
2022 · Zachary McDowell, Matthew Vetter · Fast Capitalism · 6
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Student Learning Outcomes with Wikipedia-Based Assignments
2019 · Zachary James McDowell, Mahala Dyer Stewart · International Journal of Open Educational Resources · 6
Disrupting Academic Publishing: Questions of Access in a Digital Environment
2018 · Zachary J. McDowell · Media Practice and Education · 6
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Introduction to "Machine Communication"
2016 · Zachary J. McDowell, David J. Gunkel · DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) · 3
Wikipedia's Enlightenment Problem: Decolonizing Western Epistemologies Through Critical Open Education Practices
2023 · Matthew A. Vetter, Zachary J. McDowell · AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research · 2
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Wikipedia's Pillars and the Reality They Construct
2021 · Zachary J. McDowell, Matthew A. Vetter · Routledge eBooks · 2
Internet Governance and Moral Entrepreneurs
2023 · Zachary McDowell, Katrin Tiidenberg · AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research · 1
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Embedded Ideology of Technical Media: Rethinking Subjectivities Within a Second-Order Cybernetics
2019 · Zachary J. McDowell · Springer eBooks · 1
Fast "Truths" and Slow Knowledge; Oracular Answers and Wikipedia's Epistemology
2026 · Zachary McDowell, Matthew Vetter · Fast Capitalism
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Correction to: Communication Technology and Gender Violence
2024 · Deepanjali Mishra, Anh Ngoc Le, et al. · Signals and communication technology
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Semantic Media: Political Economy Perspectives on Platformized Fact Production
2023 · Andrew Iliadis, Heather Ford, et al. · AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research
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Introduction: Futures
2022 · McDowell, Zachary · ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Introduction: Crises and Communication
2021 · McDowell, Zachary, Royal, Peter, et al. · ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
How Wikipedia Decides on Who Gets to Contribute
2021 · Zachary J. McDowell, Matthew A. Vetter · Routledge eBooks
Works count: 41
Citation count: 406
H-index: 11
I10-index: 11
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