Karatzogianni: The Process is Radical the Content is Not

By Karin Oenema, March 29, 2010

Karatzogianni combines in her talk the theory of cyberconflicts and media. According to her you have to see the Internet as a dialogue. We are looking at a medium and we have to analyse the discourses at that medium. So what control of information do we have? We are using the open source as a [...]

Mikkonen: The Kosovo War Continuing on Wikipedia: Too Many Truths for One Wiki

By Karin Oenema, March 28, 2010

Teemu Mikkonen challenges the Neutral Point of View policy haunting Wikipedia when it comes to controversial cases such as the Kosovo War article. In these cases, he argues, it is not possible to achieve complete neutrality. As a Masters student at the Univeristy of Tampere, Mikkonen has studied the Talk page of the Wikipedia article [...]

Shapiro: Wikipedia Provides Intelligence but Not Intelligence about Stupidity

By Karin Oenema, March 28, 2010

Unlike the other speakers, such as Reichert (Foucault-inspired), Shapiro said that he is less critical: “The critique is all right, however, it should be a component of a larger view, and the larger view should be pragmatic and constructive”. According to Shapiro, Hofmann’s ideology critique is insufficient. Blindness and ignorance are a weak thesis within [...]

Wikipedia Art: Fifteen Hours of Magic

By Karin Oenema, March 26, 2010

“Wikipedia art doesnt exist anymore”. These heavy words elapsed provocatively out of Scott Killdall‘s mouth somewhere during the first part of his speech. Only later on in his talk, were we to learn why. Scott Killdall stood behind the speech table. A short man, peering into the audience determined to get his message across about [...]

Hofmann: Wikipedia Between Emancipation and Self-Regulation