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Yesterday we gathered at the UvA at the Digital Methods...

WikiAnalytics Workshop

By johannaniesyto, March 26, 2010

Yesterday we gathered at the UvA at the Digital Methods Institute (DMI) for an informal workshop in order to exchange methodological approaches and to discuss tools to allow analyzing Wikipedia. Mainly two approaches have been identified that don’t necessarily stand in contrast to each other: Follow the users and providers: Researchers following this approach mainly [...]
THIS TEXT IS WRITTEN BY HEATHER FORD. The panel ‘Wikipedia...

DAY 2: Bangalore – Session 5: Wikipedia and the Place of Resistance

By johannaniesyto, January 23, 2010

THIS TEXT IS WRITTEN BY HEATHER FORD. The panel ‘Wikipedia and the Place of Resistance’ introduced some fascinating arguments about why people either leave Wikipedia (a perspective from US Internet Analyst, William Buetler) or why they’re not interested in Wikipedia (Yi-Ping Tsou about why Taiwan does not like Wikipedia) – and some thoughts on the [...]
THIS TEXT IS WRITTEN BY STUART GEIGER. Eric Zimmerman: Wikipedia...

DAY 2: Bangalore – Session 6: Wikipedia and the Critique of Western Knowledge Production

By johannaniesyto, January 23, 2010

THIS TEXT IS WRITTEN BY STUART GEIGER. Eric Zimmerman: Wikipedia and the Current Research Information System Zimmerman spoke about trusting Wikipedia, asking if anonymity could ever lead to trust. He pointed out that there was a key difference between information and knowledge, and asked which one Wikipedia was facilitating. As an academic and a father, [...]
THIS TEXT IS WRITTEN BY LINDA GROSS Usha Raman Usha...

DAY 2: Bangalore – Session 4: Wikipedia & Education

By johannaniesyto, January 16, 2010

THIS TEXT IS WRITTEN BY LINDA GROSS Usha Raman Usha Raman’s talk „Definitive references and disruptive locations? The wikipedia as a school teaching-learning ressource“ discussed the potential of Wikipedia as a learning resource for both teachers and students. While the internet is entering classrooms it challenges traditional learning processes by introducing a discontinuity in exisiting [...]
Mark Graham The invisible: Mark Graham presented geomapping data retrieved...

DAY I: Bangalore — Session 2: Global Politics of Exclusion

By johannaniesyto, January 14, 2010

Mark Graham The invisible: Mark Graham presented geomapping data retrieved from geotagged Wikipedia articles and introduced the idea of digital and spatial palimpsests. With this notion he is made the argument that Wikipedia is (re)editing ways in which we interact culturally, economically and politically with places. Pointing to the uneven geographies (e.g. Africa is poorly [...]
Following our internal editorial discussions as well as the welcoming...

Welcome to the CPoV debate(s)

By johannaniesyto, January 4, 2010

Following our internal editorial discussions as well as the welcoming notes on the closed cc: mailing list, I thought it is time to open our debate! I personally think it is important to emphasise – and here I refer to Geert Lovink – that this debate likes to be understood as a critical debate which [...]