'critical theory' 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

• Do you support Wikipedia? News from the Trenches of the Science Wars 2.0

  December 8, 2008

  I show that asking whether Wikipedia is a reliable academic source enframes Wikipedia into an objectless standing-reserve of potential citations, foreclosing many other possibilities for its use. Instead of asking what Wikipedia has done to reality, I ask: what have we done to Wikipedia in the name of reality?

  posted in Academic Works, Unpublished by R. Stuart Geiger