R. Stuart Geiger

Category Archives: Academic Works

• Do you support Wikipedia? News from the Trenches of the Science Wars 2.0

  Monday, December 8, 2008

  I show that asking whether Wikipedia is a reliable academic source enframes Wikipedia into an objectless standing-reserve of potential citations, foreclosing many other possibilities for its use. Instead of asking what Wikipedia has done to reality, I ask: what have we done to Wikipedia in the name of reality?

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• Researching Wikipedia Holistically: A Tentative Approach

  Saturday, October 11, 2008

  This is a tentative article-length introduction to my thesis on Wikipedia. It is an attempt to analyze Wikipedia from an interdisciplinary perspective that tries to make problematic various assumptions, concepts, and relations that function quite well in the “real world” but are not well-suited to studying Wikipedia. I begin by talking about the [...]

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• Words and Things: A De-Re-Sub-Post-Construction of Rhizomatic and Non-Arborescent Stratum in Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus

  Saturday, July 26, 2008

  This was my final project for an Information Studies class I took back in 2006, when I was an undergraduate at the University of Texas.  Our assignment was to transform information from one form to another, and I chose to perform this analysis of Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus.  I scanned and OCRed the [...]

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• The Wikipedian Discourse: A Foucauldian Archaeology

  Thursday, December 20, 2007

  This paper is a Foucauldian account of power relations as expressed through discourse in the on-line encyclopedia Wikipedia.

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• There Is No Cabal: An Investigation into Wikipedia’s Legal Subculture

  Thursday, May 31, 2007

  An investigation into the community formed by small number of Wikipedia contributors who care enough to decide how, at some level, Wikipedia is run. The work discusses identity, communication, and organizational hierarchy in this subculture.

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• Senior Thesis: Democracy in Wikipedia

  Thursday, May 10, 2007

  My thesis studied the legal culture of Wikipedia to examine the law through stories and histories, giving the reader a sense of not only what the Wikipedian legal system is, but also what fundamental assumptions the community makes in utilizing such a system.

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• The Facticity of Art

  Friday, May 4, 2007

  This is a piece of web art or net art, with an included work of art criticism about the piece. The work makes the argument that while interactive digital art can be considered user-centered, this new style and medium is only centered around those possibilities that the creator wishes to make available to [...]

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• Notions of Identity Liberation in Virtual Gaming Communities

  Friday, May 5, 2006

  The vast worlds of MMORPGs seem close to postmodern theories of identity, as a player is able to radically constitute their on-line self at will. Despite this, these virtual gaming communities should not be seen as safe spaces in which a subject can realize their true (or ideal) self.

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• Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response by Colonialism

  Wednesday, March 8, 2006

  Embracing Trobriand cricket as an instance in which domineering cultural empires were repelled is a flawed concept which masks the very forms of domination that it attempts to criticize.

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• Open Source Software: The Newest Specter?

  Wednesday, November 23, 2005

  Corporate adoption of open source software should not be viewed as antithetical to capitalism; rather, it is an example of corporations co-opting Communism to become more capitalist.

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