I have presented or will be presenting at academic conferences on the following topics:
Working Within Wikipedia: Infrastructures of Knowing and Knowledge Production
Slides from a paper I presented at the Science and Technology in Society Conference, hosted by the AAAS on 28-29 March 2009. The gist: while Wikipedia does have epistemic standards, the open question is how such an epistemology can be operationalized and enforced.
Evolving Governance and Media Use in Wikipedia: A Historical Account
Paper I will be presenting at Media in Transition 6, 24-26 April 2009 at MIT. Examines the way in which media used for governance purposes in Wikipedia has evolved alongside governance itself.
A Communicative Ethnography of Argumentative Strategies in a Wikipedian Content Dispute
This presentation, given in March 2008 at the Exploring New Media Worlds conference held at Texas A&M, was adapted from a chapter in my Senior thesis on Wikipedia’s legal system. It 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.
Conceptions and Misconceptions Academics Hold About Wikipedia
This presentation is to be given in July 2008 at Wikimania, the annual conference for Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation. It is an ethnography of academics, in which I discuss how academics see Wikipedia, and why there exists so much tension.
