Title & Author:

Critical Point of View: : A Wikipedia Reader.

Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Institute of Network Cultures, 2011.

Description:

1 online resource

Series:

INC reader ; #7

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
The 'C" in CPOV : introduction to the CPOV reader / Geert Lovink and Nathaniel Tkacz -- The argument engine / Joseph Reagle -- What is an encyclopedia? : from Pliny to Wikipedia / Dan O'Sullivan -- A brief history of the internet from the 15th to the 18th century / Lawrence Liang -- Generating ambiguities : mapping category names of Wikipedia to UDC class numbers / Amila Akdag Salah, Cheng Gao, Krzystztof Suchecki, and Andrea Scharnhorst -- The lives of bots / R. Stuart Geiger -- The politics of forking paths / Nathaniel Tkacz -- 'Good luck with your wikiPAIDia' : reflections on the 2002 fork of the Spanish Wikipedia : an interview with Edgar Enyedy / Edgar Enyedy and Nathaniel Tkacz -- Video for Wikipedia and the open web / Peter B. Kaufman -- A journey from rough consensus to political creativity : insights from the English and German language Wikipedias / Johanna Niesyto -- Outline of a clustering procedure and the use of its output / Hans Varghese Mathews -- Wikipedia art : citation as performative act / Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern -- Questioning Wikipedia / Nicholas Carr -- Diary of a young Wikipedian / Alan Shapiro -- A Brechtian media design : Annemieke van der Hoek's Epicpedia / Floran Cramer -- Digital anarchy, social media, and WikiLeaks / Patrick Lichty -- When knowledges meet : Wikipedia and other stories from the contact zone / Maja van der Velden -- The missing Wikipedians / Heather Ford -- Wiki space : palimpsests and the politics of exclusion / Mark Graham -- Wikipedia in India : past, present and future / Gautam John -- User DrorK : a call for a free content alternative for sources : an interview with Dror Kamir / Dror Kamir and Johanna Niesyto -- The right to fork : a historical survey of de/centralization in Wikipedia / Andrew Famiglietti -- Wikipedia and authority / Matheiu O'Neil -- The Wikimedia Foundation and the governance of Wikipedia's infrastructure : historical trajectories and its hybrid character / Mayo Fuster Morell -- Cultural transformations in Wikipedia -- or 'from emancipation to product ideology' : an interview with Christian Stegbauer / Christian Stegbauer and Morgan Currie -- The Wikimedia Foundation and the self-governing Wikipedia community : a dynamic relationship under constant negotiation / Shun-ling Chen.

Summary:

"For millions of internet users around the globe, the search for new knowledge begins with Wikipedia. The encyclopedia's rapid rise, novel organization, and freely offered content have been marveled at and denounced by a host of commentators. Critical Point of View moves beyond unflagging praise, well-worn facts, and questions about its reliability and accuracy, to unveil the complex, messy, and controversial realities of a distributed knowledge platform. The essays, interviews and artworks brought together in this reader form part of the overarching Critical Point of View research initiative, which began with a conference in Bangalore (January 2010), followed by events in Amsterdam (March 2010) and Leipzig (September 2010). With an emphasis on theoretical reflection, cultural difference and indeed, critique, contributions to this collection ask: What values are embedded in Wikipedia's software? On what basis are Wikipedia's claims to neutrality made? How can Wikipedia give voice to those outside the Western tradition of Enlightenment, or even its own administrative hierarchies? Critical Point of View collects original insights on the next generation of wiki-related research, from radical artistic interventions and the significant role of bots to hidden trajectories of encyclopedic knowledge and the politics of agency and exclusion."-- provided by distributor.

Resources:
Electronic resource
Free eBook from the Internet Archive
Additional information and access via Open Library

ISBN:

9789078146131
9078146133

Subject:

Wikipedia Congresses.
Art and the Internet.
Art et Internet.
Electronic encyclopedias Congresses.
User-generated content Congresses.
Social media Congresses.

Form/genre:

Discursive works.
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Carr, Nicholas, contributor.
Chen, Shun-ling, contributor.
Cramer, Florian, contributor.
Currie, Morgan, contributor.
Dan O'Sullivan, contributor.
Enyedy, Edgar, contributor.
Famiglietti, Andrew, contributor.
Ford, Heather, contributor.
Gao, Cheng, contributor.
Geiger, R. Stuart, contributor.
Graham, Mark, contributor.
Groep, Ten Klei, contributor.
Higuchi, Ayumi, contributor.
John, Gautam, contributor.
Kamir, Dror, contributor.
Kaufman, Peter B., contributor.
Kildall, Scott, contributor.
Liang, Lawrence, contributor.
Lichty, Patrick, contributor.
Lovink, Geert, contributor.
Lutino, Cielo, contributor.
Matheiu O'Neil, contributor.
Mathews, Hans Varghese, contributor.
Morell, Mayo Fuster, contributor.
Niesyto, Johanna, contributor.
Reagle, Joseph, contributor.
Roberts, Ivy, contributor.
Salah, Amila Akdag, contributor.
Scharnhorst, Andrea, contributor.
Shapiro, Alan, contributor.
Stiphout, Katja van, contributor.
Tkacz, Nathaniel, contributor.
Library Stack, supplier.
INC reader ; #7.