Notes on Wikis in Compostition and Communication Classrooms (2/15/18)
Disrupting Intellectual Property: Collaboration and Resistance in Wikis
- patchwriting- taking multiple authorial voices and sources and combining them with your own
- the field of rhetoric and composition relies on collaborative writing
- work in computers and composition has helped create opportunities for collaborations in texts
- HyperTexts can allow multiple voices to thrive
- hypertext environments can challenge traditional notions of IntellectualProperty in many ways by allowing collaborations of different people on one text
- wikis also challenge traditional notions of IP as a market commodity. Why? Market Commodities
- some may be against wiki because of the idea that certain ideas and thoughts should belong to one person
- wikis are not unproblematic
- wikis can help students move beyond tradition and into a more collaborative kind of writing and learning
Historicizing Intellectual Property
- technology has disrupted some of our ideas of the laws of copyrighting
- people might resist technology because of this out of fear
- the more resistance the worse it will be
- most wikis have some form of code of conduct
- most also have rules and regulations
- wikis are not uncontrolled
- deciding what information stays on a wiki is a communal effort
My Thoughts
I knew what wikis were before this class because I have taken another class where we learned to use wiki. I don't know a lot about them though so I chose to look at the article Wikis in Composition and Communication Classrooms.
I learned a lot from this particular article. Wikis are a place where multiple people can contribute. It is a great place to share information and learn. There is some controversy on wikis partially because it goes against some traditions. Either way I think that wiki is a great thing and that it will become used more and more in the future and hopefully more accepted as time goes on.
Notes on Wiki Thinking (2/19/18)
Content
- written about wiki topics like kumu, wiki books, and Wiki Gardener.
- working on some kind of wiki project
- doing research into wiki platforms
- more about generating activity and interest
- wiki platform kumu is a unique media wiki.
- unsure of wiki books set up
- goal of adding to public knowledge is important and helps with quality of a wiki
- fascination with features of wikimedia commons
Text
- this particular post and wikis linked had a lot of hyperlinks to the subjects mentioned
- asked questions
- a few pictures scattered through out post and wikis linked
- written in smaller paragraphs in all
- some of the wikis linked to this page used multiple headings to start new sections
My Thoughts
I thought the article had some good information about wikis. It also had some good links to different wikis that showed their form well. I think I would agree with the post that some of the best wikis are the ones that add to the public knowledge. Both included images that I thought helped the reader keep interest and added to the topic of the writing. I think wikis are extremely useful. This post got me thinking about that as well. Also while I was looking over some of the wiki pages linked to this post.
