'collaboration' Tag

• Trace Ethnography: Following Coordination through Documentary Practices

  January 7, 2011

  This is a paper I co-authored with David Ribes and recently presented at HICSS, the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences.  It’s a qualitative methodology based on analyzing logging data that we developed through my research on Wikipedia, but has some pretty broad applications for studying highly-distributed groups.  It’s an inversion of the previous paper [...]

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

• Researching Wikipedia Holistically: A Tentative Approach

  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 nature of [...]

  posted in Thesis, Unpublished by R. Stuart Geiger

• The Wikipedian Discourse: A Foucauldian Archaeology

  December 20, 2007

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

  posted in Academic Works, Unpublished by R. Stuart Geiger