[P2P-F] Book Announcement: Geert Lovink and Nathaniel Tkacz (eds), Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader (INC Reader #7)

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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 at networkcultures.org


Nate Tkacz

School of Culture and Communication
University of Melbourne

Twitter: http://twitter.com/__nate__
Homepage: www.nathanieltkacz.net
Current project: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/about-2/
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