From geert at xs4all.nl Tue Feb 3 10:58:08 2015 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 10:58:08 +0100 Subject: The Affective Labor of Wikipedia by Michael Mandiberg Message-ID: <5CD68465-1745-4C00-9A6F-68D8F750F505@xs4all.nl> The Affective Labor of Wikipedia: GamerGate, Harassment, and Peer Production. By Michael Mandiberg http://socialtextjournal.org/affective-labor-of-wikipedia-gamergate/ From joseph.2011 at reagle.org Wed Feb 4 15:14:47 2015 From: joseph.2011 at reagle.org (Joseph Reagle) Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 09:14:47 -0500 Subject: The Affective Labor of Wikipedia by Michael Mandiberg In-Reply-To: <5CD68465-1745-4C00-9A6F-68D8F750F505@xs4all.nl> References: <5CD68465-1745-4C00-9A6F-68D8F750F505@xs4all.nl> Message-ID: <54D22957.90907@reagle.org> Thanks for sharing this Geert. Mandiberg writes: > The 260,000+ words of the ArbCom case pit two competing modes of > collaboration against each other. GamerGate, and those that organize > and collaborate on Reddit, 4chan, and other anonymous or > pseudonymous message boards operate under a different social contract > than those that aspire to the kind of peer-production theorized by > Yochai Benkler. When Bernstein claims that ?this is the end of the > Wiki Way,? I understand that as: this is a clash of online > civilizations, and it is unclear if peer production (e.g. the Wiki > Way) can hold off the anonymous horde. Reading it I can't help think of how I began *Good Faith Collaboration* [1] with the plan by Stormfront (white supremacists) to take over Wikipedia back in 2005. Where the racists failed in 2005, the GamerGaters (at least partially) succeeded in 2015. The two lessons I drew from the "neo-Nazi attack" was that it was useful for Jimmy Wales to be able to step in and say *he'd intervene* because WP's process is not good at resisting such coordinated efforts in the short term. In general, I'm a supporter of the *open community with benevolent dictator* model (what I call "authorial leadership") for this reason. I heard mixed things about Wales in this issue (originally ignorant, but then tried to constructively challenge them to write their own article?). But he no longer has much power in any case. The second was that even Stormfront counseled its members to be polite and abide by WP's norms. That was novel then, but manipulators and haters can be very good at that today. On another list the notion of "Sea-Lioning" [2] came up which I likened to as a type of derailing and a sibling of concern trolling. This is now part of the playbook of what I call a "trollplex" in the new book [3]. [1]: http://reagle.org/joseph/2010/gfc/chapter-1.html [2]: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sea-lioning [3]: http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/reading-comments From galaver at gmail.com Tue Feb 10 08:15:40 2015 From: galaver at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Ivan_Mart=C3=ADnez?=) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 01:15:40 -0600 Subject: Wikimania 2015 Call for Submissions Message-ID: Dear all. Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City will be the eleventh in the series of annual international conferences which provide a unique opportunity for the Wikimedia community and our projects to come together, share their common goals, and develop better ways to work together on an international level. The event will held from July 15 to 19 in Biblioteca Vasconcelos. Whether you are a community member of one of the Wikimedia projects (such as Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikidata, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, MediaWiki or others), or a fellow open content creator or consumer, we welcome your proposal for a session at Wikimania 2015 Call for submissions: https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions Also the Scholarships to attend is very close to end! https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships Best, -- *Iv?n Mart?nez* *Wikiman?a 2015 Chief CoordinatorUser:ProtoplasmaKid @protoplasmakidhttp://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org * Hemos creado la m?s grande colecci?n de conocimiento compartido. Ayuda a proteger a Wikipedia, dona ahora: https://donate.wikimedia.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: