After a presentation of my chapter on “encyclopedic anxiety” Alice Marwick recommended David Foster Wallace’s “Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the Wars Over Usage …

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The import of the use of reference works in court cases is frequently misunderstood, and in this case Wikipedia is no different. Wikipedia has been …

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I have over 1000 primary sources in my Wikipedia research mindmaps. In accumulating some of those sources, I have already been confronted with their ephemerality …

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Since beginning my work at NYU the majority of my focus, obviously, has been on Wikipedia. However, some research I began almost 4 years ago …

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I recently read Andrew Ross’ “No Collar: The Humane Workplace and Its Hidden Costs: Behind the Myth of the New Office Utopia” in remembrance of …

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In Harvey Einbinder’s excellent “The Myth of the Britannica” he includes some of the advertisements used to sell Britannica around 1960 including this one …

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I recently had the opportunity to catch up on some of my reading including new quantitative analysis of Wikipedia contribution. In particular, the question about …

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In my dissertation I make only a passing reference to the “Iron Law of Oligarchy,” an expression coined by Robert Michels, an early 20th-century sociologist …

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In the spring I will again be teaching a class on conflict management. More than one colleague has expressed puzzlement as to why I would …

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As we all know by now, there are manifest anxieties associated with the practice of blogging. The most common one being the stress of feeling …

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