[NORSLIS] Thematic section in Culture Unbound on "Changing Orders of Knowledge. Encyclopaedias in Transition"

[Olof Sundin]

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, 
Olof Sundin and Jutta Haider

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Olof Sundin
Professor in Information Studies
Assistant head of department (doctoral education)
Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences
Lund University, Sweden
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