'politics' Tag

• 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

• Wikimania 2008: Wikipedia Administrators / Arbcom Panel

  July 20, 2008

  This panel was at Wikimania 2008, and featured James Forrester, Andrew Lih, Kat Walsh, and Charles Matthews. Everyone except for Lih is or has been on the Arbitration Committee, and this turned into a discussion about admins.

  posted in Conference Notes by R. Stuart Geiger

• Real, Virtual Communities: A Response to Brian Williams

  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.

  posted in Blog Posts by R. Stuart Geiger