ORCID Profile
0000-0002-3500-9772
Current Organisation
University of Technology Sydney
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Research Topics
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Communication technology and digital media studies | Communication and media studies | International and Development Communication | Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies | Communications and media policy | Communication and Media Studies | Media and communication law |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
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Publications
Barriers to the Localness of Volunteered Geographic Information
Publisher: ACM
Date: 18-04-2015
Beyond notification: Filling gaps in peer production projects
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 24-03-2018
Abstract: In order to counter systemic bias in peer production projects like Wikipedia, a variety of strategies have been used to fill gaps and improve the completeness of the archive. We test a number of these strategies in a project aimed at improving articles relating to South Africa’s primary school curriculum and find that many of the predominant strategies are insufficient for filling Wikipedia’s gaps. Notifications that alert users to the existence of gaps including incomplete or missing articles, in particular, are found to be ineffective at improving articles. Only through the process of trust-building and the development of negotiated boundary objects, potential allies (institutional academics in this case) can be enrolled in the task of editing the encyclopaedia. Rather than a simple process of enrolment via notification, this project demonstrated the principles of negotiation required for engaging with new editor groups in the long-term project of filling Wikipedia’s gaps
How accountable are digital platforms?
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 15-11-2019
Abstract: This chapter focuses on the accountability of platforms – a key question for researchers of digital politics. We set out a research agenda for answering the question of how platform power is held accountable that is both empirical and normative. Empirically, we emphasize the need to trace how accountability actually operates in practice. What accountability mechanisms exist, how are they used by publics, how do platforms respond, and with what effects? At the same time, we outline a normative agenda to investigate what genuine accountability requires and how existing accountability practices compare to this standard. Informed by deliberative approaches to democracy, and drawing in particular on Rainer Forst’s work on justification, we argue that the accountability of platforms is a question of their power being justified adequately to affected publics and that this depends on the quality of the discursive processes through which decisions about platforms are justified. Focusing on the quality of discursive processes allows us to distinguish critically between cases where publics merely accept platform power, unreflectively and in contexts of limited information and choice, to cases where power is justified through good reasons tested through inclusive public discourse.
Infoboxes and cleanup tags
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 31-08-2015
Abstract: Wikipedians use a number of editorial elements, including infoboxes and cleanup tags to coordinate work in the first stage of articles related to breaking news topics. When inserted into an article, these objects are intended to simultaneously notify editors about missing or weak elements of the article and to add articles to particular categories of work. This categorization practice enables editors to collaborate iteratively with one another because each object signals work that needs to be done by others in order to fill in the gaps of the current content. In addition to this functional value, however, categorization also has a number of symbolic and political consequences. Editors are engaged in a continual practice of iterative summation that contributes to an active construction of the event as it happens rather than a mere assembling of ‘reliable sources’. The deployment and removal of cleanup tags can be seen as an act of power play between editors that affects readers’ evaluation of the article’s content. Infoboxes are similar sites of struggle whose deployment and development result in an erasure of the contradictions and debates that gave rise to them. These objects illuminate how this novel journalistic practice has important implications for the way that political events are represented.
Media, Communication and the Struggle for Democratic Change
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2019
Newsbots That Mediate Journalist and Audience Relationships
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-07-2019
Ethnographies of the Digitally Dispossessed
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 30-09-2022
Framing data witnessing: Airwars and the production of authority in conflict monitoring
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-03-2023
DOI: 10.1177/01634437221147631
Abstract: Civilian victims of aerial warfare too often go uncounted and unrecognised by the belligerents. Myriad images and video of attacks against Syrian civilians did little to end their suffering, for ex le. The UK-based not-for-profit Airwars has had tangible impact on civilian harm disclosures and reparations because they have been able to shape such representations in a form that will be recognised by those with the power to enact change. Building on established theories of media witnessing and their extension to what Gray calls ‘data witnessing’, we argue that Airwars reveals the operative role of framing in open-source investigation and the forms of it witnessing it produces. Through interviews with key team members and detailed analysis of Airwars published methodology and other materials, this article shows how open-source investigations broadens the frame for witnessing civilian harm and in doing so generates relational, multi-scalar accounts of state violence that remain open to contestation and confirmation. In doing so, Airwars claims an epistemic authority via its distinctive framing of emergent practices of witnessing that depend upon the assembling of roles, standards, spatialities and techniques.
Participation in Wikipedia's article deletion processes
Publisher: ACM
Date: 03-10-2011
Wikidata as Semantic Infrastructure
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2023
Crowd Wisdom
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 30-11-2012
Review: Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places, the Urban Wisdom of Jane Jacobs, Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life
Publisher: Pion Ltd
Date: 08-2013
DOI: 10.1068/B4004RVW
Gender and the invisibility of care on Wikipedia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2023
Big Data and Small: Collaborations between ethnographers and data scientists
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2014
Abstract: In the past three years, Heather Ford—an ethnographer and now a PhD student—has worked on ad hoc collaborative projects around Wikipedia sources with two data scientists from Minnesota, Dave Musicant and Shilad Sen. In this essay, she talks about how the three met, how they worked together, and what they gained from the experience. Three themes became apparent through their collaboration: that data scientists and ethnographers have much in common, that their skills are complementary, and that discovering the data together rather than compartmentalizing research activities was key to their success.
Inverting {{Citation needed}}: critical design reflection of a citation learning game
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-08-2023
‘Anyone can edit’, not everyone does: Wikipedia’s infrastructure and the gender gap
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2017
Abstract: Feminist STS has long established that science’s provenance as a male domain continues to define what counts as knowledge and expertise. Wikipedia, arguably one of the most powerful sources of information today, was initially lauded as providing the opportunity to rebuild knowledge institutions by providing greater representation of multiple groups. However, less than ten percent of Wikipedia editors are women. At one level, this imbalance in contributions and therefore content is yet another case of the masculine culture of technoscience. This is an important argument and, in this article, we examine the empirical research that highlights these issues. Our main objective, however, is to extend current accounts by demonstrating that Wikipedia’s infrastructure introduces new and less visible sources of gender disparity. In sum, our aim here is to present a consolidated analysis of the gendering of Wikipedia.
Writing up rather than writing down
Publisher: ACM
Date: 27-08-2012
Provenance, power and place: Linked data and opaque digital geographies
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 28-09-2016
Abstract: The ability of search engines to shape our understandings of the world by controlling what people discover when looking for information is well known. We argue that the power of search engines has become further entrenched in the wake of the current move to restructure the Web according to the logics of ‘linked data’ and the ‘semantic Web’. With the goal of sharing information according to structured formats that computers (rather than humans) can easily process and analyse, linked data engineers are abstracting information from fact sharing websites like Wikipedia into short, uniform statements that can be more efficiently shared, compared and analysed. In response to this enhanced power by search engines and the corresponding loss of agency by ordinary users, some Wikipedians have challenged the ways in which data from the encyclopedia has been used (often without credit) by search engines like Google. Using the capabilities approach first developed by Amartya Sen, we interrogate exactly what some Wikipedians believe they are losing when they complain about how Google represents facts about the world obtained from Wikipedia and other sites.
Related Organisations
Association For Progressive Communications
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University Of Leeds
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
University Of California, Berkeley
Location: United States of America
University Of Oxford
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
ICommons
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Association For Progressive Communications
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Electoral Institute For Sustainable Democracy In Africa
Location: South Africa
Related Funding Activities
Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP220100662
Start Date: 07-2022
End Date: 06-2025
Amount: $409,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityLinkage Projects - Grant ID: LP220100208
Start Date: 06-2023
End Date: 06-2026
Amount: $507,970.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityLinkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE230100069
Start Date: 04-2023
End Date: 04-2024
Amount: $215,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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