Mass media have acted as a pseudo-public sphere. . . . Wikipedia is surprisingly good proof that collaborative work by amateurs can provide balanced and reliable information. . . . A Wikipedia entry is a living and constantly changing organism, reflecting the current state of negotiations between people of vastly differing opinions on a subject. (Aufderheide 2007) Our experience with the "neoliberalism" entry in Wikipedia should alert us that there is an element of wishful thinking in this portrait of the Net Information Commons as a political wonderland.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 2100