'automation' Tag

• Does Habermas Understand the Internet? The Algorithmic Construction of the Blogo/Public Sphere

  January 23, 2010

  This is a paper that I recently got published in gnovis, which is a peer-reviewed journal run entirely by graduate students at Georgetown’s Communication, Culture, and Technology program.  It is a sneakishly Latourian intervention into the debate between Habermasians and post-Habermasians regarding the Internet as a (part of the) public sphere.   They have been [...]

  posted in Academic Works, Published Works by R. Stuart Geiger

• The Work of Sustaining Order in Wikipedia: The Banning of a Vandal

  October 28, 2009

  With the help of my advisor, Dr. David Ribes, I recently got a chapter of my master’s thesis accepted to the ACM conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, to be held in February 2010 in Savannah, Georgia. It is titled “The Work of Sustaining Order in Wikipedia: The Banning of a Vandal” and focuses on [...]

  posted in Academic Works, Conference Presentations, Published Works, Wikis by R. Stuart Geiger

• Working Within Wikipedia: Infrastructures of Knowing and Knowledge Production

  March 30, 2009

  While Wikipedia does have epistemic standards, the open question is how such an epistemology can be operationalized and enforced.

  posted in Conference Presentations, Wikis by R. Stuart Geiger