User:Ying ding

Hi, my name is Ken Holmes and I am a MFA Candidate in Design Management at the Savannah College of Art and Design. I just created an account on wikipedia, learning the basics here.

I am using my user page to test out editing and providing a place to house this content till I can develop the below Thesis enough that it can go to the Research Proposals over on Meta. I dont think its ready yet, and I am not so sure as to what exactly its going to take either.

I am currently beginning work on my MFA thesis, which revolves around envisioning futures mixing Wikipedia/Wikimedia and the collaborative methodology of Issue Based Information Systems (IBIS). Below is the current working thesis statement, statement of purpose, and research questions for the thesis. I am currently in the process of putting together my literature scan and an annotated bibolography that will lead me to a full on lit search and then finally on to full literature review. This being said the below documentation for the thesis is by no means anything but a starting point. I expect it to change.

Additionally there will be some form of primary research that I will be performing for the thesis. My expectation is that it will be some kind of ethnographically based design research on the subject of community interaction as well as future design issues around the implementation of IBIS within the Wikimedia foundation projects. Please don't take these two directions as locked down or serious as my literature review and ongoing design process will definitely determine what this kind of research looks like. I would put money on this changing dramatically.

This literature scan is currently where I am focusing but I am interested in larger feedback and questions as well. Maybe you can give me some suggestions?