WOW2019: The worlds of Wikimedia: communicating and collaborating across languages and cultures University of Sydney Sydney, Australia, June 12-14, 2019 |
Conference website | https://www.wow2019.net/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wow2019 |
Call for papers
You are invited to join us at WOW2019: The worlds of Wikimedia: communicating and collaborating across languages and cultures, at University of Sydney, 12-14 June 2019.
The United Nations declared 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Languages to celebrate the world’s rich cultural diversity and heighten awareness of cultures at risk. As a free, multimedia publishing site, Wikipedia has unrealized potential for supporting such cultures in terms of languages, traditions and different knowledge systems. This conference invites participants to consider the breadth of human experience, wisdom and knowledge systems, and how they can best be served by digital technologies and the Wikimedia movement. We welcome papers that address Wikimedia’s role in enhancing global diversity from a range of perspectives including education, digital communication, indigenous knowledge, GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums), Disability Studies, Internet studies and big data, as a means to investigate new methods of collaboration to broaden inclusion across all levels of society.
Topics can refer to any of the various Wikimedia projects, as well as language and cultural diversity, and could address, but are not limited to:
- Language preservation
- Indigenous storytelling
- Theories of knowledge
- Andragogy and pedagogy
- Internet Activism
- Open knowledge
- Decolonizing the Internet
- Digital tools and methods for online diversity and abilities
- Orality and Literacy
- Resolving conflict in online communities
- New archival practices
- Innovative Case Studies and projects
Other related topics will also be considered.
Please submit abstracts up to 250 words by March 12. Acceptance of papers by March 20. Attendees wishing to submit to the conference proceedings can send full papers of 5000 words by 30 May 2019.
For questions please contact Dr Frances Di Lauro, Department of Writing Studies, and Dr Bunty Avieson, Department of Media and Communications.