R. Stuart Geiger

Category Archives: Conference Presentations

• Wikimania 2008: Education and the Wiki Paradigm: A Tug of War?

  Thursday, July 17, 2008

  This was part of the opening keynote in Wikimania 2008, given by the Egyptian Deputy Minister of Communication and IT, Hoda Baraka. Here are my notes, again without any commentary - I apologize for them not being cleaner.

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• Wikimania 2008: Opening Keynote with Egyptian Minister Ahmed Darwish

  Thursday, July 17, 2008

  The official theme or slogan for this year’s Wikimania is “the knowledge revolution that is changing wisdom.” I think this phrase – especially the difference between knowledge and wisdom – was chosen very carefully and I think it is an excellent distinction to make. This morning’s opening ceremony began with a speech from [...]

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• Wikimania 2008

  Wednesday, July 16, 2008

  I am currently in Egypt for Wikimania 2008, which is being held this year at the Library of Alexandria. On Sunday, I will be presenting my ethnographic analysis of conceptions and misconceptions academics hold about Wikipedia. This presentation was going to be about old, computer-illiterate professors but has turned into something much more [...]

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• A Communicative Ethnography of Argumentative Strategies in a Wikipedian Content Dispute

  Friday, March 28, 2008

  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 him, using a methodology of communicative ethnography. Most who opposed the image were not familiar with Wikipedia’s unique method of [...]

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