CFP New W(h)ines in New Bottles? Voicing Protest in the Digital Age, ECPR General Conference Reykjavik 2011
Dear All, Please see the call for papers for the above ECPR panel. If of interest, make sure you submit your paper proposal by 1 February. Best regards, Dan ### Section ID: *65* Section Title: *Contentious politics in times of crisis* <http://www.ecprnet.eu/conferences/general_conference/Reykjavik/section_details.asp?sectionid=65> *New W(h)ines in New Bottles? Voicing Protest in the Digital Age* * Panel Abstract* This panel is jointly coordinated with the section in "Internet and Politics: Bridging Current Research and Outlining Future Directions. Civil society is cited as a prerequisite for traditional, stable and durable democratic systems. It has gained momentum and influence at local, national and global levels, holding governments accountable, advocating democratic values as well as implementing programmes and policies traditionally located within the realm of government. The increasing importance of networked protest and collective action as a facet of political contestation is a feature of the modern landscape. Such collective action engenders new forms of "networked" action and collaboration that both enhance and to some extent shape offline contestation. The notion of civil society has been challenged by the networking possibilities of ICTs (e.g. transnational neo-fascist movements). ICT's can also have a darker side. With the increasing impact of ICTs the internal and external structures and functions of civil society and its relations vis-à-vis government/state are evolving and changing. Cyberactivism, plays a growing role in influencing governments. Cyberactivism is often a subject of contestation with internet use being cajoled by government for some activities but demonised as vaguely threatening and undemocratic in others. Social Networking is increasing connectivity not just of social engagements but also of political concerns and provides springboards for political campaigns/manifestations. The plethora of social network sites with their differing formats, contents and memberships provide a major challenge to governments' hopes of controlling or spinning their activities. The governments´ responses to this re-personalisation of collective protest activities range from attempts to contain, restrain or even demonise cyberactivism, through to utilising ICTs themselves, in order to influence cyber debates. This panel examines differing forms of cyberactivism, the rise of globalised virtual netizens as essential building blocks of civil society in a digitally enabled world, the formation of a globalised virtual civil society and its meaning for national governments, the positive/negative impacts of cyberactivism on policy-making, and governmental reactions. * Panel Chair(s)* *Name:* Paul Nixon (P.G.Nixon@hhs.nl) - /Panel Chair/ *Institution:* Hague University of Applied Sciences *Name:* Rajash Rawal (R.Rawal@hhs.nl) - /Panel Co-Chair/ *Institution:* Hague University of Applied Sciences -- Dan Mercea, PhD Teachin Fellow Department of Sociology University of York E:dmm505@york.ac.uk T: +44(0)1904 433578
Dear all, Would you be so kind as to suggest some philosophically or theoretically sensible studies on the Wikipedia and its related things? Thanks in advance for any recommendations on books or collection of papers (especially if they have online/free/downloadable versions). Best wishes, Laszlo Ropolyi Eotvos University Budapest, Hungary
Hi Laszlo, A book by Mathieu O'Neil, called Cyberchiefs: Autonomy and Authority in Online Tribes, also deal with some power and authority issues on wikipedia. Might be relevant Murat On 2011-01-19, at 1:03 PM, Laszlo Ropolyi wrote:
Dear all,
Would you be so kind as to suggest some philosophically or theoretically sensible studies on the Wikipedia and its related things?
Thanks in advance for any recommendations on books or collection of papers (especially if they have online/free/downloadable versions).
Best wishes,
Laszlo Ropolyi Eotvos University Budapest, Hungary
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Laszlo - You might look at the following by a very respected AoIR scholar: Axel Bruns (2008) Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life and Beyond: From Production to Produsage http://produsage.org/ Denise N. Rall, PhD. Premier Participant, Lismore Art in the Heart Upcoming Exhibition: Northern Rivers Community Gallery 9 March 2011 Lismore NSW AUSTRALIA Mobile +(61)(0)438 233344 Fax +(61)(0)2 6624 5380 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/esm/staff/pages/drall/ --- On Thu, 20/1/11, Laszlo Ropolyi <ROPOLYI@ludens.elte.hu> wrote:
From: Laszlo Ropolyi <ROPOLYI@ludens.elte.hu> Subject: [Air-L] Philosophy/theory of the Wikipedia To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Received: Thursday, 20 January, 2011, 5:03 AM Dear all,
Would you be so kind as to suggest some philosophically or
theoretically sensible studies on the Wikipedia and its related things?
Thanks in advance for any recommendations on books or collection of papers (especially if they have online/free/downloadable versions).
Best wishes,
Laszlo Ropolyi Eotvos University Budapest, Hungary
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I also liked *Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything* --> http://www.amazon.com/Wikinomics-Mass-Collaboration-Changes-Everything/dp/15... Although a bit less academic in nature, it provides a nice overview of the mass collaboration/open-source software space. Check the oh-so-meta review on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikinomics - Jeska On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Laszlo Ropolyi <ROPOLYI@ludens.elte.hu>wrote:
Dear all,
Would you be so kind as to suggest some philosophically or theoretically sensible studies on the Wikipedia and its related things?
Thanks in advance for any recommendations on books or collection of papers (especially if they have online/free/downloadable versions).
Best wishes,
Laszlo Ropolyi Eotvos University Budapest, Hungary
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Hi Laszlo, Here is my paper on the organisation of Wikipedia, notably using Foucault : http://uppsala.academia.edu/SylvainFirerBlaess/Papers/333288/Wikipedia_an_ex... Hope you'll find it interesting! Sylvain 2011/1/19 Laszlo Ropolyi <ROPOLYI@ludens.elte.hu>
Dear all,
Would you be so kind as to suggest some philosophically or theoretically sensible studies on the Wikipedia and its related things?
Thanks in advance for any recommendations on books or collection of papers (especially if they have online/free/downloadable versions).
Best wishes,
Laszlo Ropolyi Eotvos University Budapest, Hungary
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Hi, I would suggest Yochai Benkler's "The Wealth of Networks: How social production transforms markets and freedom". The pdf is available here: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/wealth_of_networks/index.php?title=Download_PDF... <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/wealth_of_networks/index.php?title=Download_PDFs_of_the_book>Yu-Hao Lee Media & Information Studies Michigan State University 2011/1/19 Laszlo Ropolyi <ROPOLYI@ludens.elte.hu>
Dear all,
Would you be so kind as to suggest some philosophically or theoretically sensible studies on the Wikipedia and its related things?
Thanks in advance for any recommendations on books or collection of papers (especially if they have online/free/downloadable versions).
Best wishes,
Laszlo Ropolyi Eotvos University Budapest, Hungary
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2011/1/20 Yu-Hao Lee(李育豪） <minke33@gmail.com>:
I would suggest Yochai Benkler's "The Wealth of Networks: How social production transforms markets and freedom".
That's always a good recommendation. I also recommend Reagle's "Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia." It's not deeply philosophical or theoretical but it does capture the feeling of "screw the experts and the theories, we're just going to do this" attitude that seems important to understand as part of Wikipedia's culture. (I can't find the exact quote but somewhere in the book it mentions how Wikipedia is the kind of thing that could never work in theory, only in practice.) Kevin
The "Wikipedia can't work in theory only in practice" quote is an old joke in the Wikipedia community. A lot of Wikipedia researchers use it in talks, etc, but the first reference to it I have found in MSM is this New York Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/23/world/americas/23iht-wiki.1.5405005.html Joe attributes it to Raul's laws, I think. But even there it was attributed to anonymous. If anyone has a clearer idea of the joke's origin, I'd love to update my slides. :) Also, re: theories for thinking about WP. Benkler, yes. I also like Ostrom's principles that guide self-governing communities. She was working with data about communities that manage common-pool resources and there are a lot of nice insights to be had, I think. There are at least a couple papers that examine this relationship - Viegas et al's "Hidden Order of Wikipedia" and my own "Decentralization in Wikipedia Governance." Best, Andrea :: Andrea Forte :: Assistant Professor, :: College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University :: http://www.andreaforte.net On 1/20/11 5:01 PM, Kevin Guidry wrote:
2011/1/20 Yu-Hao Lee(李育豪）<minke33@gmail.com>:
I would suggest Yochai Benkler's "The Wealth of Networks: How social production transforms markets and freedom". That's always a good recommendation.
I also recommend Reagle's "Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia." It's not deeply philosophical or theoretical but it does capture the feeling of "screw the experts and the theories, we're just going to do this" attitude that seems important to understand as part of Wikipedia's culture. (I can't find the exact quote but somewhere in the book it mentions how Wikipedia is the kind of thing that could never work in theory, only in practice.)
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Sage Ross wrote some blog post under the category "Wikipedia in Theory" ;) See http://ragesoss.com/blog/category/wikipedia-in-theory/ He works for the Wikimedia Foundation, as “online facilitator” for a project aimed at getting professors to incorporate Wikipedia editing into their classes. And he is also a graduate student in the History of Science and Medicine program at Yale. -- -- Paolo Massa Email: paolo AT gnuband DOT org Blog: http://gnuband.org
Hi Laszlo and all, don't forget the excellent Clay Shirky's book: "Here comes everybody: the power of organizing knowledge without organizations": http://www.shirky.com/ greetings, Liliana 2011/1/19 Laszlo Ropolyi <ROPOLYI@ludens.elte.hu>:
Dear all,
Would you be so kind as to suggest some philosophically or theoretically sensible studies on the Wikipedia and its related things?
Thanks in advance for any recommendations on books or collection of papers (especially if they have online/free/downloadable versions).
Best wishes,
Laszlo Ropolyi Eotvos University Budapest, Hungary
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-- Liliana
I add some links: Ortega & Gonzalez Barahona: "Quantitative analysis of the Wikipedia community of users" (pdf) http://libresoft.es/oldsite/downloads/wiki35f-ortega.pdf Timme Munk: "Self-efficacy and self-esteem in a knowledge-political battle for an egalitarian epistemology in Wikipedia" http://obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs/article/viewFile/248/294 Alejandro.
participants (12)
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Alejandro Tortolini -
Andrea Forte -
Dan Mercea -
Denise N. Rall -
Jeska Dzwigalski -
Kevin Guidry -
Laszlo Ropolyi -
Liliana Melgar E. -
murat -
paolo massa -
Sylvain Firer-Blaess -
Yu-Hao Lee(李育豪）