<nettime-ann> Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader

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> INC Reader #7
>
> Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader
> Geert Lovink and Nathaniel Tkacz (eds)
>
> 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.
>
> Contributors: Amila Akdag Salah, Nicholas Carr, Shun-ling Chen,  
> Florian
> Cramer, Morgan Currie, Edgar Enyedy, Andrew Famiglietti, Heather Ford,
> Mayo Fuster Morell, Cheng Gao, R. Stuart Geiger, Mark Graham, Gautam
> John, Dror Kamir, Peter B. Kaufman, Scott Kildall, Lawrence Liang,
> Patrick Lichty, Geert Lovink, Hans Varghese Mathews, Johanna Niesyto,
> Matheiu O’Neil, Dan O’Sullivan, Joseph Reagle, Andrea Scharnhorst,  
> Alan
> Shapiro, Christian Stegbauer, Nathaniel Stern, Krzystztof Suchecki,
> Nathaniel Tkacz, Maja van der Velden.
>
> Colophon: Editors: Geert Lovink and Nathaniel Tkacz. Editorial
> Assistance: Ivy Roberts and Morgan Currie. Copy-Editing: Cielo Lutino.
> Design: Katja van Stiphout. Cover Image: Ayumi Higuchi. Priner: Ten
> Klei, Amsterdam. Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam.
> Supported by: The School for Communication and Design at the Amsterdam
> University of Applied Sciences (Hogeschool van Amsterdam DMCI), the
> Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in Bangalore and the Kusuma  
> Trust.
>
> You can download the pdf for free here:
> http://www.networkcultures.org/_uploads/%237reader_Wikipedia.pdf
>
> To order a hard copy of the reader, send an email to
> books@networkcultures.org
>
> Geert Lovink and Nathaniel Tkacz (eds), Critical Point of View: A
> Wikpedia Reader, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2011. ISBN:
> 978-90-78146-13-1, paperback, 385 pages.
>
>
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