[CITASA] call for participation: WIKIWARS

[Piotr Konieczny]

Dear all,

I just learned of a new interesting conference - please find more info 
below.

-- 
Piotr Konieczny

"The problem about Wikipedia is, that it just works in reality, not in 
theory."


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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