'ontology' Tag

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  posted in Academic Works, Unpublished by R. Stuart Geiger

• 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  posted in Thesis, Unpublished by R. Stuart Geiger