Updates
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Fact Factories: Wikipedia and Writing History as it Happens
I will be speaking at the Digital Histories Research Seminar on Thursday 8 October 2020, 6.00pm (AEST). On the 24th of January, 2011, an Egyptian born Wikipedia editor, “The Egyptian Liberal” published the first…
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Data analyst/visualisation expert needed
Tamson Pietsch, Head of the Centre for Public History at UTS and I are leading a small pilot project at UTS to analyse Wikipedia’s scope and progress over the past twenty years in Australia…
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BBC Click on Wikipedia interventions
BBC Click interviewed me for a segment on possible manipulation of Wikipedia by the Chinese state (below). Manipulation of Wikipedia by states is not new. What does seem to be new here, though, is…
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PhD Scholarships on “Data Justice” and “Living with Pervasive Media Technologies from Drones to Smart Homes”
I’m excited to announce that I will be co-supervising up to four very generous and well-supported PhD scholarships at the University of New South Wales (Sydney) on the themes of “Living with Pervasive Media…
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Wikipedia’s relationship to academia and academics
I was recently quoted in an article for Science News about the relationship between academia and Wikipedia by Bethany Brookshire. I was asked to comment on a recent paper by MIT Sloan‘s Neil Thompson…
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Towards software that supports interpretation rather than quantification
[Reblogged from the Software Sustainability Institute blog] My research involves the study of the emerging relationships between data and society that is encapsulated by the fields of software studies, critical data studies and infrastructure studies, among…
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Human-bot relations at ICA 2017 in San Diego
News this week that a panel I contributed to on political bots has been accepted for the annual International Communication Association (ICA) conference in San Diego with Amanda Clarke, Elizabeth Dubois, Jonas Kaiser and Cornelius…
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How Wikipedia’s silent coup ousted our traditional sources of knowledge
[Reposted from The Conversation, 15 January 2016] As Wikipedia turns 15, volunteer editors worldwide will be celebrating with themed cakes and edit-a-thons aimed at filling holes in poorly covered topics. It’s remarkable that a…
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