User:Vito Laterza~enwiki

I am currently doing a PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. I hope I can contribute to the editing here and there. My main interest in the wikipedia is theoretical/social scientific, if these words still make any sense.

I am particularly fascinated by the new ways of producing knowledge Wikipedia is fostering. Just one example: while users discuss the neutrality and objectivity of articles, these very controversies (i.e. disagreements over certain statements of a particular article and further information about the topic treated by the article itself) become new knowledge that compliments and dialectically interacts with that contained in the article itself. A self-reflexive encyclopedia, where the very concepts of 'neutrality' and 'objectivity' become categories up for discussion and contestation.

More to come about me and the Wikipedia.