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CfP: Wikipedia Academy 2012: Research and Free Knowledge
January 17, 2012 in Copyright Regulation, Meta | Tags: #FCRC, #wpa2012, CfP, Free Knowledge, Wikipedia Academy 2012 | by leonidobusch | Leave a comment
End of June seems to be the conference date in 2012. After Olga pointed to the Call for Papers to this year’s SASE conference in Boston, I am happy to announce the Call for Paper for the “Wikipedia Academy 2012: Research and Free Knowledge” taking place in Berlin June 29 to July 1, 2012. To some degree, this conference resembles the “Free Culture Research Conference” held in 2010 (see also: “Retrospect” and “Conference Documentation“), in that it tries to gather researchers of different disciplines working on free knowledge in general and Wikipedia in particular.
The Wikipedia Academy is hosted by the Alexander on Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Freie Universitaet Berlin, and Wikimedia Germany. Extended abstracts can be submitted by March 31 (see Submission Process). Topics of interest are:
Blogging about Governance Across Borders: Statistics for 2011
January 2, 2012 in Meta | Tags: blog statistics 2011, gxb, listings | by leonidobusch | Leave a comment
2012 will be our fourth year of collaboratively blogging about governance across borders. Fortunately, more and more researchers in related fields start running blogs, as well. Recently, for example, the research group on “Cultural Sources of Newness” at the Social Science Research Center (WZB) in Berlin has started their blog, which I highly recommend. Specifically Ariane Berthoin Antal provides most interesting reflections on newness in general and newness in academia in particular – at an impressive pace.
Looking back at our own third year of blogging, I am happy to provide this year’s statistics (see stats for 2010 and 2009 respectively):
Top 5 blog posts 2011 (in terms of visitors):
- Boarding Berlin: The Pirate Party Triumph in the German Capital (FAQ)
- Transnational Studies and Governance # 3: Studies on ‘global’ markets in history*
- The Dark Side of Copyright’s Force: LucasArts v. YouTube v. Greenpeace v. VW [Update]
- Anonymous Attacks German Collecting Society GEMA
- The “Why?” of Andhra Pradesh – An Interview with Malcolm Harper
* also #1 in the Top 5 of 2010
Top 5 search terms guiding visitors to our blog in 2011:
- Andhra Pradesh microfinance crisis
- post-socialism (also #2 in 2010)
- anonymous gema
- Milford Bateman microfinance (also #4 in 2010)
- transnational institutions
Top 5 tags attached to blog posts in 2011:
- Microfinance / Microcredit (16 out of 38 in 2011)
- Google (7/15)
- Creative Commons (7/22)
- YouTube (6/9)
- copyright (6/16)
Top series in 2011:
- Bordercrossing Books (4 out of 6 posts in 2011)
- The Series Series (3/7)
- Wise Cartoons (2/4)
In total we published 56 new posts in 2011 – three more than last year but still short of the 64 posts we had in our first year of blogging in 2009. We thus did not manage to reach our self-imposed goal for 2011, which was to “beat the 2009 level of posts but keep the comment-per-article ratio at 2″ (see statistics for 2010). However, we still have on average one post per week and we received 208 new comments last year. This means that we managed to double the comment-per-article ratio the second year in a row, from 2 to 4.
We also very much appreciate a growing number of guest bloggers (see guestxborders). For 2011, we are indebted to Domen Bajde, Elke Schüßler and Matthias Thiemann, who will return in 2012 to continue his series “Securitization Revisited“.
(leonhard)
Art Across Borders: Paul Mutant’s “This Painting …” in Budapest
June 7, 2011 in Copyright Regulation, Meta | Tags: governance across borders, Paul Mutant, YouTube | by leonidobusch | 2 comments
A recurrent theme on this blog is how the seemingly global online world is still - and in some fields even increasingly – divided by barriers, which are still tied to national borders. In this context, about eight months ago our article “This Post is Available in Your Country” featured a painting by the Hungarian artist Paul Mutant that ironically addressed the omnipresence of blocked video content on the web. Actually, very recently a Berlin based copyright expert told me that, for example, in Germany the majority of videos on YouTube were blocked because of (alleged) copyright infringements.
In an exhibition in the Három Hét Galéria in Budapest, Mutant now takes his idea to the extreme, as is evidenced by the pictures below (all photos provided by the artist).
Blogs in the Social Sciences: A Collaborative Workshop Report
April 26, 2011 in Meta | Tags: blogs, social science blogs, theorieblog, workshop report | by leonidobusch | 4 comments
Not least to celebrate their first and very successful year of blogging, the crew of the German theorieblog invited fellow German research bloggers to a one-day workshop at Humboldt University Berlin on April 9, 2011. With the help of the online-tool Piratepad some of the participants including myself collaboratively crafted a short workshop report. Since the original report is available in German only, in what follows I present a shortened version in English and ask my fellow co-authors from Berliner Gazette, Blogmacherei, Mind at Work, Sicherheitskulturen, Theorieblog, and Verfassungsblog to forgive me any imperfect or crude translations.
How important are offline activities for blogs? The workshop organized by the team of the Theorieblog has given a clear answer to that question: in spite of all blog-euphoria, offline is indispensable. The workshop, attended by over 22 male and female bloggers, was meant to be structured alongside three major themes:
- What makes a good blog post?
- Blogs and their readers
- Blogs and the wider public
As the discussions soon showed, these issues were difficult to keep apart and debates circled around the following, overarching questions: How do (research) blogs position themselves in the context of research and the public and how and with what aims are we blogging? Read the rest of this entry »
New URL: www.governancexborders.com
March 16, 2011 in Meta | Tags: governance across borders | by leonidobusch | Leave a comment
After more than two years of blogging we thought our blog deserved its own URL:
Of course, links to the original URL (governancexborders.wordpress.com) will be automatically redirected.
Blogging about Governance Across Borders: Statistics for 2010
January 4, 2011 in Meta | Tags: blog statistics, blog statistics 2010, gxb, listings | by leonidobusch | 1 comment
Last year we celebrated the first birthday of this blog by sharing some statistics provided by our open source blogging software WordPress in form of the all-too popular end-of-the-year-listings – a tradition, which we continue after our second year of blogging:
Top 5 blog posts 2010 (in terms of visitors):
- Transnational Studies and Governance # 3: Studies on ‘global’ markets in history
- Fair Value Accounting in Retreat?*
- Regulating Over the Counter Derivatives: Is Global Agreement Possible?
- Extending Private Copying Levies: Approaching a Cultural Flat-rate?
- Eastern Frontiers: The Good, the Bad and the Church
* also #3 in the Top 5 of 2009
Top 5 search terms guiding visitors to our blog in 2010:
- Transnational governance (#3 in 2009)
- post-socialism
- Kindle controversy (#1 in 2009)
- Milford Bateman microfinance
- fair value accounting (#2 in 2009)
Top 5 tags attached to blog posts in 2010:
- Microfinance / Microcredit (12 out of 22 in 2010)
- Creative Commons (6/15)
- Development (5/12)
- Piracy (4/6)
Financial Crisis (4/9)
Transnational governance (4/10)
Copyright / Copyright Regime (4/14)
Top 5 series in 2010:
- Andrah Pradesh Microfinance Crisis (8 out of 8 posts in 2010)
- The Bateman Controversy (4/4)
- The Series Series (3/4)
- Bordercrossing Books (2/2)
Wise Cartoons (2/2)
While in total we published 53 posts in 2010 – down 11 compared to 64 posts in 2009 – we have received a total of 113 comments, doubling our comment-per-article ratio from 1 to 2. We again met our self-imposed goal of publishing on average at least one post per week – it was, however, closer this year. Our New Year’s resolution for 2011: beat the 2009 level of posts but keep the comment-per-article ratio at 2.
One Year Blogging about Governance Across Borders: Statistics for 2009
January 2, 2010 in Meta | Tags: blog statistics 2009, gxb, listings | by leonidobusch | 3 comments
When we started our blog with one year ago in January 2009 many things were unclear: Will it work out to subsume very different empirical fields under the heading of transnational governance? Will we manage to find enough time for blogging? Will blogging influence our research? What issues will be of greatest interest?
At least regarding the last question, our open source blogging software WordPress provides some data, which we present in form of the all-too popular end-of-the-year-listings:
Top 5 blog posts 2009 (in terms of visitors):
- Pirate Parties: Transnational mobilization and German elections
- Fair Value Accounting and the ‘Inactivity’ of Markets
- Fair Value Accounting in Retreat?
- The Kindle Controversy: No Right to be a Reader?
- Accounting at the G20 London summit: Watering down or walking the talk?
Top 5 search terms guiding visitors to our blog in 2009:
- Kindle controversy
- Fair value accounting
- Transnational governance
- Copyright example
- Epistemic community
Top 5 tags attached to blog posts in 2009:
- Creative Commons
- Microfinance / Microcredit
- Copyright / Copyright Regime
- Development
- Transnational governance
Top 5 series started in 2009:
- Microcredit Myths (4 posts)
- Kindle Controversy (3 posts)
- Eastern Frontiers (2 posts)
- Transnational Studies and Governance (2 posts)
- Wikimania Preview (2 posts)
In total we published 64 posts in 2009, with a total of 63 comments attached to them. While this means we reached our self-imposed goal of publishing at least one post per week, we hope to improve our comment-per-article ratio above the current average of 1 in our second blogging year 2010.
About this blog
January 19, 2009 in Meta | Tags: FAQ | by leonidobusch | Leave a comment
What?
A research blog on governing and institution building across borders.
Who?
Mostly, we are are members and affiliates of the research group “Institution Building Across Borders” at Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne.
Why?
Several reasons: First, we love our work and like to write about it and discuss it. Second, we often meet people in the field or at conferences who are interested in our work. This blog and its feed will make it easier to follow it. Third, a lot of interesting stuff doesn’t make into journals – it is or appears too speculative, too small a contribution, too practical, too theoretical, too special. But still, it may be helpful and interesting for someone, which brings us to the last question:
For whom?
First of all, for ourselves. We believe Weick is right, when he says “people know what they think when they see what they say.” So, blogging can help us think. Second, for anybody interested in (discussing) our work on institution building and governance across borders.
