[Air-l] Online graffiti

Ariel Foina arielfoina at gmail.com
Thu Apr 20 06:51:12 PDT 2006


I believe that the most acurate real manifestation of this "online
grafitti"the the website defacement. Otherwise, any communal webpage
infrastructure will fit the graffiti Idea. But, the point it that off-line
grafitti is, fundamentaly a kind of ILEGAL social deviance, the owner of the
walls don't want the graffiti ink in it. I don't think that wikipedia has
somethin iligal to itself in its context, I don't think that wikipedia walls
don't want to be furfil of content.
MAYBE, when someone post deliberately, false contet on wikipedia, this could
be seen as a king of grafitti, but I'm affreid that this would be a very
dificul scietific object to investigate.

Best Regards

Ariel

On 4/20/06, Alex Halavais <halavais at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> :). I defined Wikipedia as a "temple built out of grafitti" for a
> reporter doing a story on accuracy and wikipedia (see
> http://theory.isthereason.com/?p=810).
>
> - Alex
>
> On 4/20/06, Andrea Forte <aforte at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, M.B.Gaved wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > sounds interesting. Like Cameron, I'd ask about what definition you
> have for "online graffitti"
> > <snip>
> > > - defacement of existing online content?
> >
> > By this definition, Wikipedia has a rich history of textual "graffiti."
> > :-) Actually, I don't know much about graffiti, but it seems that there
> > are many kinds present in Wikipedia, from the "kilroy was here" variety,
> > to malicious defacing, to elaborate and sometimes pretty or interesting
> > little stories and passages that simply don't belong.
> >
> > Andrea
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