*CONFERENCE TIME-LINE:* *Last Date for submitting Note of Interest and Funding options: 31st August, 2009 Announcement of short-listed proposals: 21st September, 2009.
Anivar The time line is dated, so why are you circulating this mail now? On 06/10/2009, Anivar Aravind <[email protected]> wrote: > > WikiWars > > Call for Participation; 12th, 13th January, 2010, Bangalore > Event One for the Critical Point of View Reader* > > *CPOV (CRITICAL POINT OF VIEW) CONTEXT: *The Wikipedia has emerged as the > de facto global reference of dynamic knowledge. Different stakeholders - > Wikipedians, users, academics, researchers, gurus of Web 2.0, publishing > houses and governments - have entered into fierce debates and discussions > about what the rise of Wikipedia and Wiki cultures means and how they > influence the information societies we live in. The Wikipedia itself has > been at the centre of much controversy, pivoted around questions of > accuracy, anonymity, vandalism, expertise and authority. > > 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. > > *WIKIWARS CONFERENCE:* The first conference to be held in Bangalore, 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. > > *CONFERENCE THEMES:* 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 > > For detailed information on each theme, please go to > http://cis-india.org/publications/workshops/conference-blogs/Wikiwars > > *WHO SHOULD APPLY:* The conference in Bangalore aims to bring together an > interesting mix of diverse voices from different cultures, geo-political > spaces, and context-based practices from around the world, to start > consolidating the approaches, experiences, and impact of the Wikipedia: > 1. Students and Wikipedia users who belong to different local chapters or > have editorial/contribution experiences on the Wikipedia, > 2. Academics and publishers who are exploring the changes caused by > Wikipedia, both in classroom pedagogy and in knowledge production systems, > 3. Researchers and theoreticians, practitioners and proponents, artists > and social activists, who are interested in Wikipedia cultures and their > socio-political conditions, should be attending this conference. > > *HOW TO APPLY: *To apply for the conference, please send the following > information by email to [email protected] by the 31st of 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.) > > *CONFERENCE TIME-LINE:* > *Last Date for submitting Note of Interest and Funding options: 31st > August, 2009 > Announcement of short-listed proposals: 21st September, 2009. > Sharing of Detailed Proposals with all participants: 15th December, 2009 > Announcement of Conference Schedule and Logistics: 30th December 2009 > Online Registration for non-presenting participants: 3rd January 2010 > Conference Dates: 12th, 13th January 2010 > * > *TRAVEL SUPPORT:* Travel support is available for some of the conference > participants (national and international). The selected participants will be > provided with the basic travel and accommodation costs for the duration of > the conference from their home-countries/cities to travel to Bangalore for > the conference. If you are applying for travel support, please indicate > clearly in your ?Note of Interest? any of these three options: 1. Full > travel support required. 2. Partial travel support required with estimate. > 3. Travel support not required. Travel support will be provided by the > conference organisers on a case-by-case basis. > > *CONFERENCE ORGANISERS: *Sunil Abraham ([email protected]) and Nishant > Shah ([email protected] ), Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore. > If there are any queries regarding the WikiWars conference please write to > us. > > *RESEARCH AND EDITORIAL TEAM:* Geert Lovink and Sabine Niederer > (Amsterdam), Nathaniel Tkacz (Melbourne), Johanna Niesyto (Siegen), Sunil > Abraham and Nishant Shah > (Bangalore). > > -- > Anivar Aravind > -- > "[It is not] possible to distinguish between 'numerical' and > 'nonnumerical' algorithms, as if numbers were somehow different from > other kinds of precise information." - Donald Knuth > > > > -- Bobby Kunhu http://community.eldis.org/myshkin/Blog/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. 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