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The development of the Greek-language Wikipedia: An interview with the general coordinator of the “I participate in Wikipedia” campaign- PART III.

You can also read part I and part II of the interview here: PART I, PART II Wikipedia & Greece In your presentation of the campaign in TedXAthens, you mentioned that “through Wikipedia, Greece can claim a better place...

By Ilektra Pavlaki on 07/09/11 Comments Off

The development of the Greek-language Wikipedia: An interview with the general coordinator of the “I participate in Wikipedia” campaign. PART II.

You can read part I of the interview here. The existing community & the new users Usually, the users are the ones who approach Wikipedia. With this campaign, however, it is the Wikipedia community that approaches the public. What...

By Ilektra Pavlaki on 07/07/11 2

The development of the Greek-language Wikipedia: An interview with the general coordinator of the “I participate in Wikipedia” campaign.

Yiannis Giannarakis is the general coordinator of the “I participate in Wikipedia” campaign, which aims at the development and enrichment of the Greek – language Wikipedia. The initiative, launched in January 2011, is supported by the Greek-language Wikipedia community,...

By Ilektra Pavlaki on 07/05/11 2

Berghain: Adventures in Techno

Over the past few weeks I have situated myself in Berlin on a mandate to take in and absorb all that is the music culture here. On a mission to discover the heartbeat of the European music industry, I...

By Megan Adams on 06/29/11 Comments Off

Notes from Visualizing Europe: the power and potential of data visualization

Last week I attended Visualizing Europe, a one-day conference where a very interesting and diverse group of data visualization experts and designers talked about the power and potential of data visualization. Below are some notes and comments on some points...

By Liliana Bounegru on 06/24/11 Comments Off

Theory on Demand: an interview with editor Margreet Riphagen

Margreet Riphagen is the Institute of Network Culture‘s project manager and the editor of the Theory on Demand book series. Here she explains TOD project’s background and how it operates as action-oriented research – and also proof the exploding...

By Morgan Currie on 06/22/11 Comments Off

The revolutionary potential of Wikipedia’s equipotential paradigm.

This is part of the final paper I submitted for the course “Culture of Spectacle” As shown in the previous post, the “anyone can edit” philosophy of Wikipedia is often viewed with great skepticism in academic circles, while its...

By Ilektra Pavlaki on 06/19/11 Comments Off

De-Funkification? The Fight For The Right Of The Funkeiro

As a result of the “pacification” project through the implementation of a “peace police” (UPP) in Rio de Janeiro, which is intended to combat (armed) drugs trafficking and decrease violence in the favelas, the Baile Funk (Funk party) has...

By ellen sluis on 06/16/11 1

e-G8: Governments Acknowledge Importance of Open Internet

Image ‘Mark Zuckerberg elysee france Nicolas Sarkozy e-G8‘ by Admond filed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic licence Two weeks ago, leaders of several nations gathered to discuss worldwide challenges at the G8 conference. Prior to this event,...

By Joris Pekel on 06/14/11 Comments Off

Knowledge, not the way you knew it: Studying the impact of Wikipedia on the reception of knowledge

This is part of the final paper I submitted for the course “Culture of Spectacle” 17.000.000 articles. 91.000 active contributors. 270 languages. No matter what words one would choose to describe Wikipedia, numbers cannot speak but the truth: Wikipedia,...

By Ilektra Pavlaki on 06/13/11 1

The Internet Is Taking My Pictures

Unlike Google Maps, Russia’s Yandex Карты is much more tourist friendly in that it does not blur your face away when you have been caught on camera! Yandex does not seem to uphold an evenly strict privacy policy as...

By Pim van Bree on 06/06/11 1

Srebrenica and the Dutch Wikipedia

With the case against Ratko Mladic underway, the collective blind spot developed by the Dutch for the massacre of Srebrenica is again taking central stage in news coverage. The argument for a supposed blind spot may be backed up...

By Bram van der Kruk on 06/03/11 3

Weibo Revolution

As China is famous for their copied and rip-off products there is no difference in the digital sphere. Services and platforms that we have learned to love, resent or can’t go without also exist within the borders of China...

By Jidi Guo on 06/02/11 4

The Online Love Search: attention cheaters!

Make life living , start an affair today! Attention cheaters, adultery has been legitimized..online that is. There are websites for most things imaginable and that includes online dating sites encouraging extra marital affairs. These are sites created to bring...

By ibtisam omer on 05/26/11 Comments Off

Anne Mangen on the Technologies and Haptics of Reading

[This post was originally published on The Unbound Book Conference Blog) ‘The Ascent of E-readers‘, the third session of the day, kicked off with Anne Mangen, Ph.D., an Associate professor in literacy and reading research and a reading specialist at The...

By Ekaterina Yudin on 05/22/11 1

Bernhard Rieder: 81,498 Words: the Book as Data Object

[This post was originally published on The Unbound Book Conference Blog) The second session of day 1 of the Unbound Book conference – also titled The Unbound Book – was moderated by Geert Lovink, and discussions of what a book becomes once...

By Ekaterina Yudin on 05/22/11 3

The lessons that “teaching” taught me: Following the campaign for the development of the Greek-language Wikipedia, Part II

The truth is that one needs all the support that can get when is called to present an online encyclopedia in front of the so – called Net Gen or Generation Y. I wouldn’t dare to count myself a...

By Ilektra Pavlaki on 05/19/11 Comments Off

The Online Love Search: Nigerian-Romance-Scam

Hi And i thank you for this service. I got cault in a scam. i had a good friend that was aware of this site. but i aready tracked the money threw western union that was suposed to go...

By ibtisam omer on 05/18/11 2

Hacking the Bogota Book Fair

I knew that especially Camilo was up to something, though I wasn’t quite sure what it was yet; something with tiles and hacking the Bogota book fair, but the how or what remained in the dark. So driven by...

By Fei An Tjan on 05/12/11 8

Data visualizing the story of food and emotion

How do we even begin to visualize and draw connections between the intimately complex relationship that exists between food and emotion? Can we discover patterns amongst global food trends and global emotional trends? Could data visualization help us weave...

By Ekaterina Yudin on 05/11/11 5

A “lazy” Wikipedia. An active community. An interesting story: Following the campaign for the development of the Greek-language Wikipedia, Part I

In the first 10 years of its existence, Wikipedia, this unusual “experiment” as it used to be called, has evolved into the world’s greatest reference source. Far more than that however, Wikipedia’s most surprising achievement is that it turned...

By Ilektra Pavlaki on 05/11/11 3