Comments on: Do you support Wikipedia? News from the Trenches of the Science Wars 2.0

By: The end of Wikipedia as we know it (eng) | BodySpaceSociety

The end of Wikipedia as we know it (eng) | BodySpaceSociety — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:39:59 +0000

[...] in the current intellectual debate over scientific authority, we’re actually fighting the academic equivalent of Star Wars, last thing we need here is to discover that the rebel HQ Coruscant has been replaced by the Death [...]

By: ailsa haxell

ailsa haxell — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:22:58 +0000

I enjoyed your bringing of Latour to the validity claims of wikipedia:
Bruno Latour, whose social study of science questioned scientific inquiry by showing how the output of scientific effort is materially affected by the technosocial institutions.
Your essay stop short of describing knowledge as not only created but held as ‘truth’ within sociotechnical institutions.
What then of competing sociotechnical institutions. Not about goodness or badness but how relations to knowledge get reframed.

By: Gregory Kohs

Gregory Kohs — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:16:51 +0000

Much of your thesis is based on a view that the Nature “study” was credible and fair. Many have argued that it was not. Not even close.