'methodology' 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

• Researching Wikipedia Holistically: A Tentative Approach

  October 11, 2008

  This is a tentative article-length introduction to my thesis on Wikipedia. It is an attempt to analyze Wikipedia from an interdisciplinary perspective that tries to make problematic various assumptions, concepts, and relations that function quite well in the “real world” but are not well-suited to studying Wikipedia. I begin by talking about the nature of [...]

  posted in Thesis, Unpublished by R. Stuart Geiger

• Wikimania 2008: Collaborative research on Wikiversity with Cormac Lawler

  July 20, 2008

  Collaborative research on Wikiversity by Cormac Lawler (user Cormaggio on Wikimedia projects) at the University of Manchester.  Wikiversity is a relatively young project in the Wikimedia umbrella, but I think it is a natural development and a great space to realize the potential of all the educators currently on Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, and all the [...]

  posted in Conference Notes by R. Stuart Geiger