Communication | R. Stuart Geiger

Technology in the Classroom: A Response to Arthur Bochner

Saturday, August 9, 2008

An outright ban on technology in the classroom - which may or may not include the pen and paper - is not the right answer. If one wishes to curb disruptive behavior, then ban disruptive behavior instead of banning all the little things that could be disruptive.

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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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There Is No Cabal: An Investigation into Wikipedia’s Legal Subculture

Thursday, May 31, 2007

An investigation into the community formed by small number of Wikipedia contributors who care enough to decide how, at some level, Wikipedia is run. The work discusses identity, communication, and organizational hierarchy in this subculture.

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Response: Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City by William Mitchell

Monday, January 29, 2007

In his book Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City, William Mitchell describes how information technology – specifically digital, wireless networks which are accessed primarily through portable devices – fundamentally changes how we interact with others. More than anything else, “[c]onnectivity had become the defining characteristic of our twenty-first-century urban condition” (11). For Mitchell, [...]

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Notions of Identity Liberation in Virtual Gaming Communities

Friday, May 5, 2006

The vast worlds of MMORPGs seem close to postmodern theories of identity, as a player is able to radically constitute their on-line self at will. Despite this, these virtual gaming communities should not be seen as safe spaces in which a subject can realize their true (or ideal) self.

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Open Source Software: The Newest Specter?

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Corporate adoption of open source software should not be viewed as antithetical to capitalism; rather, it is an example of corporations co-opting Communism to become more capitalist.

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R. Stuart Geiger

Technology in the Classroom: A Response to Arthur Bochner

A Communicative Ethnography of Argumentative Strategies in a Wikipedian Content Dispute

There Is No Cabal: An Investigation into Wikipedia’s Legal Subculture

Response: Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City by William Mitchell

Notions of Identity Liberation in Virtual Gaming Communities

Open Source Software: The Newest Specter?

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