A Communicative Ethnography of Argumentative Strategies in a Wikipedian...
This presentation was adapted from a chapter in my Senior thesis on Wikipedia’s legal system that focused on a dispute over the inclusion of images of the Islamic prophet Muhammad in an article about...
View ArticleConceptions and Misconceptions Academics Hold About Wikipedia
This is a paper I presented at Wikimania 2008, the international conference of those involved with or interested in Wikipedia, Wiktonary, Wikibooks, or any other wiki under the Wikimedia Foundation...
View ArticleVideo: Conceptions and Misconceptions Academics Hold About Wikipedia
The good folks at the Library of Alexandria and Kaltura have made available videos of a good number of presentations from Wikimania 2008. Luckily, mine was one of the ones up! So without further ado:
View ArticleEvolving Governance and Media Use in Wikipedia: A Historical Account
This is an abstract for a paper that I will be presenting at Media in Transition 6, which will be held at MIT from April 24th to the 26th. Wikipedia, the self-proclaimed “free encyclopedia that anyone...
View ArticleWorking Within Wikipedia: Infrastructures of Knowing and Knowledge Production
Here are the slides from a paper I presented at the Science and Technology in Society Conference, hosted by the AAAS this past weekend. I won an award for top paper in my section for it – so I’m pretty...
View ArticleWikisym Poster: The Social Roles of Bots and Assisted Editing Tools
This project investigates various software programs as non-human social actors in Wikipedia, arguing that their influence must not be overlooked in research of the on-line encyclopedia project. Using...
View ArticleThe Work of Sustaining Order in Wikipedia: The Banning of a Vandal
With the help of my advisor, Dr. David Ribes, I recently got a chapter of my master’s thesis accepted to the ACM conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, to be held in February 2010 in...
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