[ecrea] What I Know Is: A Research Symposium on Online Collaborative Knowledge-Building

‘What I Know Is: A Research Symposium on Online Collaborative 
Knowledge-Building’.
DATE: Wednesday 19th March
VENUE: Iris Murdoch Building, University of Stirling
START: 9.30am
END: 4.30pm

This event is run as part of the Division of Communications, Media and 
Culture research seminar series for the 2013-14 academic session, and 
features invited talks and responses from colleagues in the School of 
Arts and Humanities, the open knowledge movement in Scotland, and 
beyond. It is free to attend, and lunch will be provided.

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Dogma concerning the use of the Wikipedia has, for many of us working in 
Higher Education, tended to dictate a lukewarm and grudging 
acknowledgement of its existence at best; at worst, a belief that any 
and all uses of it ought to be expunged from academia forever. This 
attitude to the Wikipedia, and its umbrella organisation in the UK, 
Wikimedia UK, has in recent years mellowed and in some disciplinary 
circles it has now been appropriated as a tool for Learning and Teaching.

The gravity of this sea-change is such that Wikimedia UK has been 
involved with partnering influential AHRC initiatives such as the 
British Library’s Wikipedian-in-residence (2012) and a similar scheme 
has been set up at the National Library of Scotland. With two major 
EduWiki national conferences in the last two years, and a handful of 
smaller, themed events, it is now timely to reassess the Wikipedia and 
other online sites not only as pedagogical tools, but also as platforms 
where knowledge is built, shared and transformed; sites and objects for 
analysis, critical engagement, as well as philosophical debate.

This event takes the Wikipedia (the most popular amongst other wikis) 
and inquires as to its status as a platform for collaborative online 
knowledge-building. As such, it is but one of a number of examples where 
online communities of trust and participation have formed their own 
cultural protocols and have led to all manner of creative user generated 
content; the building, sharing and transformation of knowledge; and even 
political engagement, within a broader context of social structures of 
freedom, expression, agency and public-mindedness. Such broadly civic 
values, associated in part with stripes of Western liberal tradition, 
arguably have at their heart an ethical dimension which engenders (or at 
least, seeks to engender) a more robust digital literacy than perhaps 
that which has come to shape policy-making and Web ownership in the last 
few years.

As such, it is with pleasure that the Division of Communications, Media 
and Culture, brings together speakers from a range of disciplines, with 
a range of interests, from within the School of Arts and Humanities, and 
from across the UK, to share their work addressing different dimensions 
of these knowledge-building activities. It is hoped that in engaging 
with and sharing the various philosophical and interdisciplinary strands 
of research included in the symposium’s speaker-respondent structure, we 
will gain some insights into the true value of these online collaborations.

Speakers:
Lorna Campbell on Open Learning (Open Scotland/Open Knowledge Foundation)
Dr Zoe Drayson on Extended Cognition and Agency (University of Stirling)
Dr Padmini Ray Murray on Digital Publishing (University of Stirling)
Dr Toni Sant on Collaborative Learning and Teaching (University of 
Hull/WMUK Academic Liaison)
Dr Greg Singh (University of Stirling, Symposium Chair)
Dr Penny Travlou on Networked Communities, Creativity and Spatiality 
(University of Edinburgh)
Marc Garrett (Furtherfield)
Professor Mike Wheeler on Extended Cognition (University of Stirling)
Dr Alison Crockford on Open Access (University of Edinburgh/National 
Library of Scotland)

This event is supported by Wikimedia UK, and by the Division of 
Communications, Media and Culture, and the School of Arts and 
Humanities, University of Stirling.

***

Please feel free to circulate within your networks. It is also an open 
event, and anyone is eligible to book a place. However, space is limited 
and subscription is likely to be in demand so please book early to avoid 
disappointment. If you wish to book a place, then please request a 
booking form from Marie O’Brien (and return) at this address:

(communications.media /at/ stir.ac.uk)

Please bear in mind that an admin fee of £5 may be charged if you cancel 
your place after 12 noon on Friday, 14th March, 2014, as catering 
arrangements will have been finalised by then.

Regards,
Greg


Dr Greg Singh
Lecturer in Media and Communications
Division of Communications, Media and Culture
University of Stirling

https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/What_I_Know_Is



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