I have presented or will be presenting at academic conferences on the following topics:
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.
