>> Wikipedia Research Initiative
>>
>> Date: 26-27 March 2010
>>
>> Location: OBA (Public Library Amsterdam, next to Amsterdam central
>> station), Oosterdokskade 143, Amsterdam
>>
>> Organized by the Institute of Network Cultures Amsterdam, in
>> cooperation with the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore,
>> India.
>>
>> Website: www.networkcultures.org/cpov
>>
>> Discussion List:
>> http://p10.alfaservers.com/mailman/listinfo/cpov_listcultures.org
>>
>> Wikipedia is at the brink of becoming the de facto global reference of
>> dynamic knowledge. The heated debates over its accuracy, anonymity,
>> trust, vandalism and expertise only seem to fuel further growth of
>> Wikipedia and its user base. Apart from leaving its modern
>> counterparts Britannica and Encarta in the dust, such scale and
>> breadth places Wikipedia on par with such historical milestones as
>> Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia, the Ming Dynasty's Wen-hsien ta-
>> ch' eng, and the key work of French Enlightenment, the Encyclopédie.
>> The multilingual Wikipedia as digital collaborative and fluid
>> knowledge production platform might be said to be the most visible and
>> successful example of the migration of FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open Source
>> Software) principles into mainstream culture. However, such
>> celebration should contain critical insights, informed by the changing
>> realities of the Internet at large and the Wikipedia project in
>> particular.
>>
>> The CPOV Research Initiative was founded from the urge to stimulate
>> critical Wikipedia research: quantitative and qualitative research
>> that could benefit both the wide user-base and the active Wikipedia
>> community itself. On top of this, Wikipedia offers critical insights
>> into the contemporary status of knowledge, its organizing principles,
>> function, and impact; its production styles, mechanisms for conflict
>> resolution and power (re-)constitution. The overarching research
>> agenda is at once a philosophical, epistemological and theoretical
>> investigation of knowledge artifacts, cultural production and social
>> relations, and an empirical investigation of the specific phenomenon
>> of the Wikipedia.
>>
>> Conference Themes: Wiki Theory, Encyclopedia Histories, Wiki Art,
>> Wikipedia Analytics, Designing Debate and Global Issues and Outlooks.
>>
>> Confirmed speakers: Florian Cramer (DE/NL), Andrew Famiglietti (UK),
>> Stuart Geiger (USA), Hendrik-Jan Grievink (NL), Charles van den Heuvel
>> (NL), Jeanette Hofmann (DE), Athina Karatzogianni (UK), Scott Kildall
>> (USA), Patrick Lichty (USA), Hans Varghese Mathews (IN), Teemu
>> Mikkonen (FI), Mayo Fuster Morell (IT), Mathieu O'Neil (AU), Felipe
>> Ortega (ES), Dan O'Sullivan (UK), Joseph Reagle (USA), Ramón Reichert
>> (AU), Richard Rogers (USA/NL), Alan Shapiro (USA/DE), Maja van der
>> Velden (NL/NO), Gérard Wormser (FR).
>>
>> Editorial team: Sabine Niederer and Geert Lovink (Amsterdam), Nishant
>> Shah and Sunil Abraham (Bangalore), Johanna Niesyto (Siegen),
>> Nathaniel Tkacz (Melbourne). Project manager CPOV Amsterdam: Margreet
>> Riphagen. Research intern: Juliana Brunello. Production intern: Serena
>> Westra.
>>
>> The CPOV conference in Amsterdam will be the second conference of the
>> CPOV Wikipedia Research Initiative. The launch of the initiative took
>> place in Bangalore India, with the conference WikiWars in January
>> 2010. After the first two events, the CPOV organization will work on
>> producing a reader, to be launched early 2011. For more information or
>> submitting a reader contribution:
>> http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/reader/
>> .
>>
>> Buy your ticket online at:
>> http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/practical-info/tickets/
>> (with iDeal), or register by sending an email to: info (at)
>> networkcultures.org. One day ticket: €25, students and OBA members:
>> €12,50. Full conference pass (2 days): €40, students and OBA members:
>> €25.
>>
>> More info: www.networkcultures.org/cpov. Contact: info (at)
>> networkcultures.org, phone: +3120 5951866
>>
>>
via geert
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