2017/5/27 Roundtable #4 "Netademia: Network, Academia, and Society" in North American Taiwanese Association Conference 2017 @ Stanford

1. Open Collaboration:
Producing Knowledge in a Networked Age
Mei-chun Lee I 05.27.2017
Netademia: Network, Academia, and Society I NATSA 2017
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Photo CC-BY 3.0-Kriby Wu

2. what is “knowledge”
in a networked age?

3. academic knowledge
vs
public knowledge
the straw man ?

4. two modes of knowledge
production with g0v
Taiwan Open Gov Report Thesis/Ethnography

5. Substituting the “o” with “0ʺ in gov, the new
“g0v” not only stands for rethinking the role that
the government plays from the bottom up, but also
represents the world view of 0 and 1 in the digital
natives generation. Based on the spirit of open
source, g0v cares about freedom of speech and open
data, writing code to provide citizens the easy-to-
use information service.
“

6. <Open Budget>
<Worktime Calculator>

7. research
questions
By studying g0v, I ask
how these civic hackers
transcode the idea of
openness from open
source software to open
government?

8. FB: 11,000+
github: 250+
slack: 2,500+
hackpad: 7,000+

9. frastructure
hackathon!
bi-monthly hackathon
25 times
bi-monthly
100-130ppl
21 times
bi-monthly
20-40ppl
9 times
by task
15-30ppl

10. Ask not why nobody is doing this,
You are the “nobody”!

11. Dig Fill Push
g0v hackathon connects people with various expertise

12. Hackers may be individuals, but
civic hackers is the network.

13. two modes of knowledge
production with g0v
Taiwan Open Gov Report Thesis/Ethnography
co-production reflexivity & retrospection

14. Taiwan Open
Gov Report
• collaborative data
collection
• writing the
contemporary
• open text for
community review
• about the community
& for the community
co-production

15. Thesis
Ethnography
• participatory
observation
• writing
retrospectively
• closed text only for
peer review
• about the community
but for the academia
reflexivity & retrospection

16. Taiwan Open
Gov Report
Thesis
Ethnography
• participatory
observation
• writing
retrospectively
• closed text only for
peer review
• about the community
but for the academia
• collaborative data
collection
• writing the
contemporary
• open text for
community review
• about the community
& for the community
Open Network Closed Network

17. premise: study culture from its own perspective
method: become insider
reflexive on the power of representation
anthropologist

18. Taiwan Open
Gov Report
Thesis
Ethnography
HOW TO OPEN IT UP?
• participatory
observation
• writing
retrospectively
• closed text only for
peer review
• about the community
but for the academia
• collaborative data
collection
• writing the
contemporary
• open text for
community review
• about the community
& for the community

19. pizza

20. collaboration
rhizome
(Deleuze & Guattari 1987 )
The Internet

21. researcher as a collaborator

22. g0v is a mode of communication
and collaboration, un-organization.
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