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

---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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.... )

Kind regards, Jutta Haider and Olof Sundin

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