Dear all,
I just learned of a new interesting conference - please find more info
below.
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Piotr Konieczny
"The problem about Wikipedia is, that it just works in reality, not in
theory."
CPOV - Critical Point Of View : WikiWars
(Bangalore, 12-13 January 2010)
The Wikimedia Foundation has recently employed its first research
analyst and provides spaces for “Wikipediology”, including projects such
as the Wiki Project on vandalism studies. Nonetheless, critical
Wikipedia research should also be done outside the self-reflexivity of
the Wikimedia Foundation and its community. There is an urgent need for
quantitative and qualitative research from an Humanities and Arts
perspective that could benefit both the wider user base and the active
Wikipedia community itself.
The Centre for Internet and Society (Bangalore, India) and the Institute
of Network Cultures (Amsterdam, Netherlands) are working together to
produce a critical reader on Wikipedia and to build a Wikipedia
Knowledge Network. Under the rubric CPOV, we propose two events that
bring together different perspectives, approaches, experiences and
stories that critically explore different questions and concerns around
Wikipedia. The proceeds from these two events will result in a reader
that consolidates critical points of view about Wikipedia.
The first conference to be held in Bangalore on 12-13 January 2010,
called WikiWars, invites participation from users, scholars, academics,
practitioners, artists and other cultural workers, to share their
experiences, ideas, experiments, innovations, applications and stories
about Wikipedia. The WikiWars conference embodies the spirit that guides
an open encyclopaedia like the Wikipedia, by referring to the edit
battles that users enter into over topics that have many points of view.
WikiWars also refers to the contradictory positions adopted by different
stakeholders on the various issues of credibility, authority,
verifiability and truth-telling, on the Wikipedia. This conference calls
for diverse and varied knowledges to come together in a critical
dialogic space that informs and augments our understanding of the Wikipedia.
The possible themes and areas for presentations (projects, experiences,
experiments, stories or documentation) can include but are not limited to:
Wiki Theory: Endorse, question/contest or delineate the theoretical
approaches and view points on the Wikipedia
Wikipedia and Critique of Western Knowledge Production: The predominance
of textual or linguistic cultures, post-western knowledge production
systems, and indigenous knowledge systems
Wiki Art: Art that uses Wikipedia models, structures or data to explore
and expand the practice of Wikipedia project; and accounts that document
Wikipedia based art practices or debates
Designing Debate: Suggestions, innovations, critiques and ideas that
focus on the design and form of the Wikipedia, to explore the claims of
neutrality, objectivity, emergent hierarchy, control and authenticity on
the Wikipedia
Critique of Free and Open: Areas like Wikipedia governance, economic
practices of and around Wikipedia, and the nature of freedom in usage,
production and participation on the Wikipedia
Global Politics of Exclusion: Exploring questions of non-western
material inclusion, language, connectedness, oral histories, women,
non-geeks, and alternative material that cannot be documented on
Wikipedia etc.
The Place of Resistance: Space of resistance and dissent in the
Wikipedia, structures that allow for alternative voices, experiences and
ideas
Wikipedia and Education: Wikipedia usage in classrooms as a teaching
resource, and its effect on pedagogy, the role of Wikipedia in the
knowledge production sector, and mobilisation of academic communities
around the Wikipedia
Last date for submitting note of interest and funding options : 31
August 2009
How To Apply: To apply for the conference, please send the following
information by email to infowiki(a)cis-india.org by the 31 August 2009.
1. A note of interest (450 700 words) detailing your ideas and
possible contribution
2. Your updated resume
3. A sample of your work (term papers, published articles, peer-reviewed
papers, books, art-projects, social intervention projects etc.)
For the detail call for participation see:
http://cis-india.org/research/conferences/wikiwars
For more information about the broader research network cpov see:
http://cis-india.org/research/conferences/conference-blogs/Wikiwars
Research and editorial group: Geert Lovink and Sabine Niederer
(Amsterdam), Nathaniel Tkacz (Melbourne), Sunil Abraham (Bangalore),
Johanna Niesyto (Siegen), Nishant Shah (Bangalore).--------
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