Posts By: erincsalor

Van der Velden: When Knowledges Meet: Database Design and the Performance of Knowledge

By erincsalor, March 28, 2010

I would like to talk about my research which, I believe, could help us approach some of the questions related to Wikipedia. For this research, I was interested to know, how knowledge is translated/traveled; from people to things. I focused on community healers in rural India and observed the process by which their knowledge recorded, [...]

Fuster Morell: The Role of the Wikimedia Foundation and the Form and Geopolitics of its Internationalization

By erincsalor, March 27, 2010

Mayo Fuster Morell’s website I will present results of my research concerning governance on digital commons, which was a research based on a comparative analysis of case studies, one of which was Wikipedia. It is noteworthy that most research focused on governance on online communities focus on the interaction between participants of the community, which [...]

Joseph Reagle: Wikipedia and Encyclopedic Anxiety

By erincsalor, March 26, 2010

Reagle’s presentation can be accessed on his own website. I want to make sense some of the criticism Wikipedia receives in a historical frame. I want to do this in a very simple proposition, that; reference works embody larger social anxieties. One of the central things about thinking about encyclopedias is through their motives. Because [...]

Dan O’Sullivan: An Encyclopedia for the Times: Thoughts on Wikipedia from a Historical Perspective

By erincsalor, March 26, 2010

I will present a history of encyclopedias with respect to Wikipedia. I will specifically focus on the question, whether they were conservative or radical enterprises for their time. It should be noted that encyclopedia is a very mobile genre. It has meant different things to different people throughout time. It can be traced back to [...]