Posts By: korinnapatelis

Weltevrede and Borra on visualising controversy and Wikipedia structures

By korinnapatelis, March 31, 2010

How does intense debate articulate on Wikipedia? How could we visualize the evolution of conflict on Wikipedia, does it have a pattern? These are more questions regarding the structure of Wikipedia wars were asked and answered by E. Weltevrede and E. Borra, as well as R. Rogers in absentia!.  Weltevrede and Borra argued that the [...]

Ortega: Wikpedia’s Self-Regulating Patterns in Open Numbers

By korinnapatelis, March 28, 2010

Developing open source software Ortega xeroxed the ten top language Wikpedia sites to present us with an impressive quanititave corpus of data. In his presentation he cast a critical eye in the developement and publication of quantitative data in on-line research worldwide, calling for more open practices. He pointed to the lack of comparative studies,  the [...]

O’ Neil: Wikipedia is Sovereign, Macho On-Line Habitus Fueled by Charisma

By korinnapatelis, March 27, 2010

With a love for technoculture, a research past in Californian cyberculture, and a present in French critical intelectual new media thought, O’ Neil presented a compelling talk on wikipedia user culture or rather “tribal culture”.  O’ Neil presented his stream of conciousness in tags (projected on a large screen) as he developed his arppoch to [...]

Reichert: A Paradigmatic Shift in the Production and Organisation of Knowledge

By korinnapatelis, March 26, 2010

Wikipedia is fundamental in current shifts on how knowledge is produced and organised. This is the thesis outlined in R. Reichert’s presentation.  According to Reichert  Wikipedia should be understood as representing a new mode of power. Attempting to offer (a short) archeology of Wikipedia, to a room of mostly non-Foucauldians,  Reichert argued that power, as a regime of mechanisms [...]