'web 2.0' Tag

• Working Within Wikipedia: Infrastructures of Knowing and Knowledge Production

  March 30, 2009

  While Wikipedia does have epistemic standards, the open question is how such an epistemology can be operationalized and enforced.

  posted in Conference Presentations, Wikis by R. Stuart Geiger

• Wikimania 2008: Education and the Wiki Paradigm: A Tug of War?

  July 17, 2008

  This was part of the opening keynote in Wikimania 2008, given by the Egyptian Deputy Minister of Communication and IT, Hoda Baraka. Here are my notes, again without any commentary – I apologize for them not being cleaner.

  posted in Conference Notes by R. Stuart Geiger

• Memetic Inkblots

  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.

  posted in Blog Posts by R. Stuart Geiger