'user-generated content' 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  posted in Academic Works, Unpublished by R. Stuart Geiger

• User-Generated Content as an Ethical Relation

  June 15, 2008

  I feel bad that I have not written a new entry in so long. I feel like I should apologize – not to the readers, but to the software, to the site itself. I ought to write a new post; I ought to update my status. How did I get into a situation whereby these collections of code could make ethical demands upon me? And is this bad?

  posted in Blog Posts by R. Stuart Geiger