[ecrea] Wikipedia Research Conference: CPOV in Leipzig

>[[Wikipedia:Ein kritischer Standpunkt]]
>September 25-26, 2010
>University Library Leipzig, Germany
>
>On 25th and 26th of September 2010 the German 
>speaking conference [[Wikipedia:Ein kritischer 
>Standpunkt]] ([[Wikipedia:Critical Point of 
>View]]) will take place at the University 
>Library in Leipzig, Germany. The conference will 
>gather Wikipedia researchers, critics as well as 
>community-members from the German-speaking world 
>for an interdisciplinary debate. In particular 
>the significance of Wikipedia for education, 
>politics, culture and society will be discussed.
>
>Wikipedia is one of the largest, if not the 
>largest, self-contained general knowledge 
>reference of our time. It offers critical 
>insights into the contemporary status of 
>knowledge, its organizing principles, function, 
>impact, production styles, mechanisms for 
>conflict resolution, and relation to power 
>(re-)constitution. New strategic and tactical 
>operations of knowledge and power are clearly at 
>work through Wikipedia. Of specific interest is 
>the concept of 'the open', which is ambiguous 
>within the social formation(s) constituted by 
>Wikipedia, serving as both a rallying concept of 
>digital democracy enthusiasts and as an 
>ideoglical nodal point masking new agonistic encounters.
>
>In both material and perceptional ways, every 
>new technology modifies the conditions of 
>possibility for knowledge. The logic of 
>technologies bleeds into the very structures and 
>organizing principles of knowledge, and today 
>both medium and message may reflect the ideas of 
>the (organized) network, multitude, or the 
>Deleuzian machine. It is through a selected mix 
>of technological and normative conditions ­ the 
>distributed architecture of the net, the Wiki 
>software platform, commons-based property 
>licenses and the FLOSS zeitgeist ­ that 
>Wikipedia as the encyclopedia of the information 
>age emerges, both continuing and transforming 
>the Enlightenment encyclopedic impulse or will to know.
>
>The main topics of the conference are Wikipedia 
>& The Politics of Open Knowledge, Digital 
>Governance, and Wikipedia & Education. These 
>topics derive from the significance of the 
>online encyclopedia in the reconfiguration of 
>knowledge (re-)production and its consequences 
>for the public, architectures of participation, 
>and political education in a media democracy. 
>Alongside presentations of established scholars 
>like Christian Stegbauer, Peter Haber, Rainer 
>Hammwöhner, Ramón Reichert, and Ulrich Johannes 
>Schneider, the programme of the conference will 
>consist of a panel discussion of Wikipedia 
>community-members and critics, as well as 
>Wikipedia-workshops and a research network meeting.
>
>The research network meeting addresses Wikipedia 
>researchers to discuss their current research 
>and draft new research projects. Especially 
>aimed for young academics, the research network 
>meeting is planned as open space, allowing its 
>participants to actively engage in the event as 
>questions and topics are shaped and discussed 
>among the group. To participate, we ask for a 
>registration by email not later than August 31, 
>2010 to (info /at/ cpov.de). Please include a 
>description of your research interest or 
>abstract of your research on one page and tell 
>us, if you are interested to make a short presentation.
>
>The Leipzig conference continues the series of 
>international conferences of the Wikipedia 
>Research Initiative Critical Point of View from 
>January and March 2010 in Bangalore (India) and 
>Amsterdam (Netherlands). It is hosted by cultiv 
>­ Gesellschaft für internationale Kulturprojekte 
>e.V. in cooperation with the Research Initiative 
>Critical Point of View and funded by the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung.
>
>The conference will be open to the public. There 
>will be no participation fee. Conference language is German.
>
>For further information please visit the conference website: www.cpov.de
>
>Deadline for the Registration for the network meeting: August 31, 2010
>
>Concept and Editorial board: Geert Lovink, 
>Johanna Niesyto and Andreas Möllenkamp
>
>Contact
>cultiv
>Gesellschaft für internationale Kulturprojekte e.V.
>Bernhard-Göring-Str. 65
>D-04107 Leipzig
>Tel. +49-341-2228893
>Email: (info /at/ cpov.de)
>www.cpov.de

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