Posts Tagged: wikipedia

Wikipedia: Collaborative Culture and the Fulfillment of a Vision Short...

Short summary and review from Joseph Reagle’s “In good faith…”

By julianabrunello, February 2, 2010

Wikipedia: Collaborative Culture and the Fulfillment of a Vision Short summary and review of Joseph Reagle‘s dissertation “In Good Faith: Wikipedia Collaboration and the Pursuit of the Universal Encyclopedia”. (http://reagle.org/joseph/2008/03/dsrtn-in-good-faith. New York (NY), 2008). By Juliana Brunello Reagle’s introduction is somewhat unclear about the central quest of his dissertation. After reading his essay and re-reading [...]
Interview with Erinc Salor, 20.01.2010 By Juliana Brunello Erinc Salor...

Interview with Erinc Salor

By julianabrunello, February 2, 2010

Interview with Erinc Salor, 20.01.2010 By Juliana Brunello Erinc Salor and Joseph Reagle have something in common: One is writing and the other has already written a PhD thesis using a historical perspective to explain Wikipedia. Their backgrounds are completely different though. Reagle has studied Computer Science, Technology and Policy. He also gathered much experience [...]
By Stuart Geiger This year, the International Symposium on Wikis...

WikiSym 2010

By julianabrunello, February 2, 2010

By Stuart Geiger This year, the International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (aka WikiSym) will be in Gdansk, Poland on July 7-9th. The conference is less critical than CPOV, but research is welcome on all topics related to wikis, no matter what the theoretical, methodological, or axiological orientation. WikiSym also has a much broader [...]
Day one of WikiWars begins with brief opening addresses from...

DAY 1: Bangalore – Session 1: Wiki Theory

By nathanieltkacz, January 17, 2010

Day one of WikiWars begins with brief opening addresses from Nishant Shah and Geert Lovink. Shung-Ling Chen The first panel titled Wiki Theory begins with Shun-Ling Chen from the Harvard Law School.  Shun-Ling is interested in comparing Wikipedia with the historical ‘republic of science’ and begins by looking at the 19th century OED. She draws [...]
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 [...]