Rewrite History: Wikipedia as a tool to produce a collaborative history and historiography. Conferenza di Studi Africani, Università di Pavia, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, 19/09/2012.
1. Rewrite History
Wikipedia as a tool to produce
a collaborative history and historiography
Iolanda Pensa, Ph.D. - lettera27 Foundation - io@pensa.it - www.iopensa.it
Conferenza di Studi Africani, Università di Pavia, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, 19/09/2012
2. Sarat Maharaj’s art and knowledge production
Tirdad Zolghadr’s approach to art and exhibitions
Michel Foucault’s power and knowledge James Clifford’s writing culture
Edward Said’s Orientalism Lawrence Lessing’s free culture
Frantz Fanon’s colonial violence and weight
Rasheed Araeen’s claim to rewrite history
V.Y. Mudimbe’s invention of Africa Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s strategic essentialism
We need to rewrite history
Marc Augé’s non-places Achille Mbembe’s borders
Homi K. Bhabha’s location of culture Jean-Loup Amselle’s connections
Arjun Appadurai’s cultural dimensions of globalization Saskia Sassen’s global city
Yochai Benkler’s networked social production and open collaboration
Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams’s Wikinomics Steven Weber’s open source production
Maja van der Velden’s contact zone on Wikipedia Mark Graham’s Africa on Wikipedia
Mathieu O’Neil’s cyberchiefs Heather Ford’s missing Wikipedians
5. Wikipedia Art Historian/I [edit] wikipedia,
Art Direction II Assignment; Prof. Holly Shields; Art Directors: Mike E. Perez, Mark Decker, Jacob Brubaker; Model: Darryl Patrick
19. Share Your Knowledge - Guidelines. Screanshot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Share_Your_Knowledge, CC BY-SA
20. creative commons & wikipedia
for cultural institutions
period June July Augu September O ober November
1 jun-1oth nov 2011
For this analysis we considered all new pages
created from the beginning of the proje
Share Yourk Knowledge until the 10th
of November. For the Wikimedia
contributions we considered all the pages
created by the partner in itution in Italian
and English during this period.
contributions to wikipedia
459 articles s
860˙302 bytes
One byte is a unit of orage capable
of holding a single chara er.
A text of 1500 chara ers corresponds
to a file of 1500 bytes.
contributions
to wikimedia commons
2993 images
s
wikipedia templates
Archivio Pietro Pensa
Careof s
Cosv
Fe ival del Cinema Africano di Verona
s
Fe ival del Cinema Africano di Milano
Fondazione Cariplo
s
Lettera27
Officina Griot s
s
Bytes added by m.Casanova and Marcok
(Wikipedia’s tutors of the proje )
Bytes added by other users
DensityDesign Research Lab-INDACO Department Politecnico di Milano, Share Your Knowledge, 11/2011, CC BY-SA.
26. @ Yinka Shonibare, Scramble for Africa, 2000, 14 chairs, 14 figures, table in Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora, 2003. Commissioned by and courtesy Museum for African Art NY.