Lichty: This Presentation Might Get Me Killed

By julianabrunello, March 27, 2010

Patrick Lichty's presentation at the CPoV conference in Amsterdam: Social Media, Cultural Scaffolds, and Molecular Hegemonies. Musings on Anarchic Media, WIKIs, and De-territorialized Art - This presentation might get me killed!

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

By Karin Oenema, March 26, 2010

Jeannette Hofmann focuses on how to represent knowledge. It all starts with life cycles of self-regulations online. The first step is one of high expectations in establishing novelty, boundlessness, autonomy, uniqueness and a certain blindness which are all a part of Wikipedia’s self representation. What follows is the feeling of otherness, it is the experience [...]

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 [...]

Charles van den Heuvel: “There is no problem”

By baswijers, March 26, 2010

Charles van den Heuvel started to make clear that he is not a wikipedian himself. But he has been involved in various projects on annotation and visualization in history, web archiving for research and Web 2.0 in the Humanities. He worked for various Dutch universities, research institutes and has worked as librarian. Expressing his interests [...]

Gérard Wormser: Is Wikipedia a Mirror of Our Society, or Is It New in the Society of Knowledge?

By tjerk timan, March 26, 2010

Introduction by Geert Lovink: Wormser is philosopher, being an expert in philosophy of Sartre. He is also the editor of sens public. Moreover, instigator of this event and this network. We talked then about independent thinking about Wikipedia. We have to emphasis the similarities and differences in comparison to the rich history of encyclopedias; we [...]

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 [...]

Introduction by Geert Lovink

By tjerk timan, March 26, 2010

Welcome all. This conference is about framing debates of Wikipedia and online collaborative knowledge production within the future of public libraries and the architectures of public access. Not only to knowledge production but moreover knowledge production. This project started two month ago, conference in Bangalore. It is about Wikipedia and it is not. This not [...]

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 [...]