Internet | R. Stuart Geiger

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

Monday, 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?

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WebCite: An On-Demand Internet Archive

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

As someone who studies Internet culture, one of my biggest problems is “link rot,” or broken links. I’m a big fan of the Internet Archive, but they are usually six to eight months behind on even the most popular sites. I also applaud sites like Wikipedia for providing stable version histories so that I can [...]

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Wikimania 2008: New Paradigms for New Tomorrows with Ismail Serageldin

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Director of the Library of Alexandria, Dr. Ismail Serageldin gave a keynote speech on the first day of Wikimania 2008 titled, New Paradigms for New Tomorrows. It was quite thoughtful and inspiring - the man is one of the most amazing individuals I have heard. He is learned in so many different areas of academic [...]

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Conceptions and Misconceptions Academics Hold About Wikipedia

Friday, 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.

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Wikimania 2008: Content and the Internet in the (Globalized) Middle East

Friday, July 18, 2008

Content and the Internet in the (Globalized) Middle East, Dr. Ahmed Tantawi, Technical Director, IBM Middle East and North Africa. Another copy of my notes from Wikimania 2008 - this was the keynote speech on the second day of the conference. He began by warning us that, “I’ve changed this presentation, and I’ll change it [...]

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Wikimania 2008: Opening Keynote with Egyptian Minister Ahmed Darwish

Thursday, July 17, 2008

The official theme or slogan for this year’s Wikimania is “the knowledge revolution that is changing wisdom.” I think this phrase – especially the difference between knowledge and wisdom – was chosen very carefully and I think it is an excellent distinction to make. This morning’s opening ceremony began with a speech from [...]

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Real, Virtual Communities: A Response to Brian Williams

Sunday, June 8, 2008

Brian Williams talked about how this year’s primary season has shown that even in the age of the Internet, we still have a longing for real communities. I take issue with his use of “virtual community” and claim that most political communities are virtual.

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Memetic Inkblots

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

I explore the memetic inkblot, which refers to units of cultural information that have effectively no singular semiotic value and therefore serve as a psychosocial indicator. In other words, they are so vague and open to interpretation that you can learn a lot about someone by asking someone to give a simple definition of them.

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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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The Wikipedian Discourse: A Foucauldian Archaeology

Thursday, December 20, 2007

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

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R. Stuart Geiger

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

WebCite: An On-Demand Internet Archive

Wikimania 2008: New Paradigms for New Tomorrows with Ismail Serageldin

Conceptions and Misconceptions Academics Hold About Wikipedia

Wikimania 2008: Content and the Internet in the (Globalized) Middle East

Wikimania 2008: Opening Keynote with Egyptian Minister Ahmed Darwish

Real, Virtual Communities: A Response to Brian Williams

Memetic Inkblots

A Communicative Ethnography of Argumentative Strategies in a Wikipedian Content Dispute

The Wikipedian Discourse: A Foucauldian Archaeology

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