Geography
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Mark Graham and I have just returned from Maynooth in Ireland where we participated in a really great workshop called Code and the City organised by Rob Kitchin and his team at the Programmable City project. We presented a draft paper entitled, ‘Semantic Cities: Coded Geopolitics and Rise of the Semantic Web’ where we trace
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I gave this talk at Wikimania in London yesterday. In the first years of Wikipedia’s existence, many of us said that, as an example of citizen journalism and journalism by the people, Wikipedia would be able to avoid the gatekeeping problems faced by traditional media. The theory was that because we didn’t have the burden
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Reblogged from ‘Connectivity, Inclusivity and Inequality‘ In this series of blog posts, we are documenting the process by which a group of computer and social scientists are working together on a project to understand the geography of Wikipedia citations. Our aim is not only to better understand how far Wikipedia has come to representing ‘the sum of all human knowledge’ but
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Reblogged from ‘Connectivity, Inclusivity and Inequality‘ In this series of blog posts, Heather Ford documents the process by which a group of computer and social scientists are working together in a project to understand the geography of Wikipedia citations. Their aim is not only to better understand how far Wikipedia has come to representing ‘the sum
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Reblogged from ‘Connectivity, Inclusivity and Inequality‘ OII research fellow, Mark Graham and DPhil student, Heather Ford (both part of the CII group) are working with a group of computer scientists including Brent Hecht, Dave Musicant and Shilad Sen to understand how far Wikipedia has come to representing ‘the sum of all human knowledge’. As part of the project, they will be making explicit the methods that
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This review was published in Environment and Planning B last year. I really loved the book and think that it’s a powerful reminder of the importance of context in thinking about how code does work in the world. Code/space: Software and Everyday Life By Rob Kitchin and Martin Dodge; MIT Press, Cambridge, London, 2011, 290
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