Researcher Design / Ubiscribe
01.07.06 – 31.05.09
In my current project for 2008 I would like to explore multilingual and translational issues as represented through the Wikipedia platform. I would like to expand the approach I have developed so far in order to investigate the dynamics formed around equivalent concepts articulated in different languages as well as the extent to which they differ from one another. To that end, I would like to build upon an earlier project – The dynamics of NPOV disputes – which I presented at the first Wikipedia conference in Frankfurt (DE), 2005.
In that project I attempted to analyze the dynamics formed around Wikipedia articles that were tagged as NPOV (NPOV is Wikipedia’s neutral point of view policy). A Wikipedia article is tagged non-NPOV as soon as a user thinks it breaches this policy. Naturally, NPOV tagged articles are more prone to ‘editorial wars’ than ‘neutral’ ones. Since Wikipedia’s editors are its users, these debates can sometimes become very ‘heated’, raising issues and perspectives that are ignored by conventional media.
I would like to further develop this research and take it outside the realm of the English Wikipedia. I would like to draw links and comparisons between the NPOV lists and debates found in the non-English editions of Wikipedia. Since Wikipedia maintains a standard structure throughout its editions, I will be able to overcome the language barrier and to automatically collect the required information based only upon the similar syntactic structures allowing me to ignore semantics. The semantic reading of the results is thus left to the user.
In my project I would like to explore multilingual and translational issues as represented through the Wikipedia platform. I would like to expand the approach I have developed so far in order to investigate the dynamics formed around equivalent concepts articulated in different languages as well as the extent to which they differ from one another. To that end, I would like to build upon an earlier project – The dynamics of NPOV disputes – which I presented at the first Wikipedia conference in Frankfurt (DE), 2005.
In that project I attempted to analyse the dynamics formed around Wikipedia articles that were tagged as NPOV (NPOV is Wikipedia’s neutral point of view policy). A Wikipedia article is tagged non-NPOV as soon as a user thinks it breaches this policy. Naturally, NPOV tagged articles are more prone to ‘editorial wars’ than ‘neutral’ ones. Since Wikipedia’s editors are its users, these debates can sometimes become very ‘heated’, raising issues and perspectives that are ignored by conventional media.
I would like to further develop this research and take it outside the realm of the English Wikipedia. I would like to draw links and comparisons between the NPOV lists and debates found in the non-English editions of Wikipedia. Since Wikipedia maintains a standard structure throughout its editions, I will be able to overcome the language barrier and to automatically collect the required information based only upon the similar syntactic structures allowing me to ignore semantics. The semantic reading of the results is thus left to the user.
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MA Media Design. Piet Zwart Instituut, Rotterdam, NL.
Studienbereich Neue Medien [Department of New Media]. Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Zürich, CH.
BA Computer Science. Tel Aviv Jaffa Academic College, Tel Aviv, IL.
BSc Mathematics. Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, IL.
Technical writing, Sheer Networks, Broadband Access products.
Teaching Assistant. Courses: Algorithms and computability. Introduction to probability. Academic college of Tel-Aviv.
Software engineer. Seabridge Networks.
Course Instructor. Course: Computer applications. Open University.
Anti mobile. In: Betti Marenko (Ed.). DIY survival.
There is no subculture, only subversion. London, GB: C6.
Latest works Michael Magruder. (19 February). In: Furtherfield. Published on: http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=170.
Personal world map by Roxanna Torre. (15 November). In: Furtherfield. Published on http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=162.
Shmoogle, all results are equal. (21 October) In: Neural.it. Published on: http://www.neural.it/english/.
Subject your cgi-bin! Academies du Samedi, Brussels, BE.
Skills from Scratch weekend. In: Universal Turing Machine. OT301 Amsterdam, NL.
Towards a subjective collective cartography. In: Mapping internet reading metadata. Brussels, BE.
Collocollaboracontentquery? (15 April). In: Ubiscribe. With Jorge Blasco Gallardo. Organised by Jan van Eyck Academie & V2. Rotterdam, NL: V2.
Image tracer. In: Opening week 2007. (8 – 12 January). Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.
The Internet. Who’s afraid of too much information? (26 September). Part of the Launch or Blog? project by no-org. Jerusalem, IL: Daila.
Dynamics of NPOV disputes. Wikimania. In: First international Wikipedia conference. Frankfurt, DE.
Introduction à la programmation en Python. Brussels, BE: Domain Public.
Set-up. Workshop for students of Academie Beeldende Kunsten Maastricht (ABKM).
(28 March). With Lilo Bauer, Karolin Meunier & Jacqueline Schoemaker. Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.
Historiography tracer. With De Geuzen. Oostende, BE.
Image tracer. Rotterdam, NL: Dutch Electronic Arts Festival.
Image tracer version 2. With De Geuzen, Ryan Griffis. In: Underfire. An exhibition of Work exploring the organisation and representation of contemporary armed conflict. (8 September – 7 October). Chicago, US: I Space Chicago Gallery of UIUC.
Home away from home. In: Videosafari.
Noise4Noise. In: The Upgrade.
Schmoogle. In: Istanbul web biennial. Published on: http://www.webbiennial.org/.
Schmoogle. In: Runme.
Schmoogle. In: Intersections. Rhizome member curated exhibitions.
Shmoogle. In: Memefest.
Virologic 1,1. In: RRF Soundlab Channel Edition 3; Kunstradio. Sold-out. (24 – 28 October). London, GB: C6.