From August, 26-28, 2009 the Wikmania took place in Buenes Aires (Call for Participation). This event exists since 2005 and brings together Wikimedians from all over the world. Wikimedians contributing to projects such as Wikipedia, Wikiversity or Wikitionary gather ‘offline’ in order to exchange experiences, ideas, and research. This event is open for everyone who is interested in the projects of Wikimedia. Continue reading
:::: why wikipedia?
18 MarCollaboration culture implies the willingness to share information and opinions and the willingness to be open towards the communication of the ‘other’. Besides, cooperation requires „the democratic minimum of the shared ability to initiate deliberation” (Bohman). This ability I see illustrated in Wikis as another many-to-many communication application. A Wiki is a type of collaborative website, a set of linked pages that enables documents to be authored collectively. Its structure and content are open to editing and evolution. Research on Wikipedia suggests that due to the pluralist and non-hierarchic nature of the medium, Wiki debates on the so called talk pages are often conflictual and their solution is found in ambiguity (Matei/Dobrescu). This underlines that interactions between decentred publics are rather in favour of making a common structure of dissent visible. Continue reading
:::: initials thoughts
16 MarMy initial thoughts that brought me to being engaged in virtualized transnational public spaces were feeded by two strands of research. Though research about transnational public sphere – with an ‘s’ in brackets – is in its fledging stages, there is a growing amount of mainly empirical studies trying to grasp transnational and/or European public space. Continue reading
:::: what i’m interested in?
16 MarPEOPLE making connections to people, making media, creating discourse, CREATING POLITICAL KNOWLEDGE.
TransnationalSpaces.DoingPublic 