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[ecrea] call for participation: WIKIWARS
Thu Jul 16 09:58:56 GMT 2009
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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 /at/ 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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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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