'conference' 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

• 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

• WikiConference New York: An Open Unconference

  September 7, 2009

  A few months ago, I had the pleasure of presenting at the first (hopefully annual) WikiConference New York, sponsored by the Wikimedia New York City chapter with assistance from Free Culture @ NYU and the Information Law Institute at NYU’s law school. I know that I am atrociously late in writing this post, but I’m [...]

  posted in Conference Notes, Wikis by R. Stuart Geiger

• Conceptions and Misconceptions Academics Hold About Wikipedia

  July 18, 2008

  As an ethnographer, I enter into communities, learn their customs, beliefs, and practices, then report back to the academy to share what I have discovered. In this presentation, I wish to do the opposite, presenting to the Wikipedian community an ethnography of academics as they relate to Wikipedia.

  posted in Conference Presentations by R. Stuart Geiger

• Open Source Software: The Newest Specter?

  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.

  posted in Academic Works, Unpublished by R. Stuart Geiger