'critical theory' Tag

• The Lives of Bots

  March 5, 2011

  I’m part of a Wikipedia research group called “Critical Point of View” centered around the Institute for Network Cultures in Amsterdam and the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore.  (Just a disclaimer, the term ‘critical’ is more like critical theory as opposed to Wikipedia bashing for its own sake.)  We’ve had some great conferences and [...]

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

• Structural Transformation was Habermas’s first of thirty books

  February 26, 2011

  So given what’s going on* in Egypt and the Middle East, we in the West are fascinated by not so much revolutions and popular uprisings against dictatorial regimes, but an efficacious use of social media. Even Clinton is talking about the Internet as “the world’s town square”, and it seems that the old conversation about [...]

  posted in Blog Posts by R. Stuart Geiger

• 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  posted in Academic Works, Unpublished by R. Stuart Geiger