More general work on encyclopedias, in case it's of interest...

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From: Jutta Haider <jutta.haider@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 11:37 AM
Subject: [Air-L] "Changing Orders of Knowledge. Encyclopaedias in Transition". Thematic section/special issue of Culture Unbound.
To: Air-L <Air-L@listserv.aoir.org>, Jutta Haider <jutta.haider@kultur.lu.se>


Dear colleagues!

We are happy to announce the publication of the thematic section "Changing
orders of Knowledge: Encyclopaedias in transition", part of Culture Unbound.
Journal of Current Cultural Research, Vol. 6, 2014. Please find the section
here: http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/current-volume.html#block3

*Table of Contents:  *
Jutta Haider & Olof Sundin: Introduction: Changing Orders of Knowledge?
Encyclopaedias in Transition.

- Research Articles:
Katharine Schopflin: What do we think an Encyclopaedia is?

Seth Rudy: Knowledge and the Systematic Reader: The Past and Present of
Encyclopedic Reading.

Siv Frøydis Berg & Tore Rem: Knowledge for Sale: Norwegian Encyclopaedias
in the Marketplace

Vanessa Aliniaina Rasoamampianina: Reviewing Encyclopaedia Authority .

Ulrike Spree: How readers Shape the Content of an Encyclopedia: A Case
Study Comparing the German Meyers Konversationslexikon (1885-1890) with
Wikipedia (2002-2013).

Kim Osman: The Free Encyclopaedia that Anyone can Edit: The Shifting Values
of Wikipedia Editors.

Simon Lindgren: Crowdsourcing Knowledge: Interdiscursive Flows from
Wikipedia into Scholarly Research.

   *Tales from the field:*

Georg Kjøll and Anne Marit Godal: Store Norske Leksikon: Defining a New
Role for an Edited Encyclopaedia.

Lennart Guldbrandsson: Wikipedia.

Molly Huber: Land of 10,000 Facts: Minnesota’s New Digital Encyclopedia.

Michael Upshall: What future for Traditional Encyclopedias in the Age of
Wikipedia?

(Download as pdf:
http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/v6/cul14v6_Changing_Orders_of_Knowledge.pdf
)

Kind regards,
Jutta Haider and Olof Sundin


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Jutta Haider
Assistant professor
Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences,
Lund University Sweden
E: jutta.haider@kultur.lu.se
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