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Textual Curation: Authorship, Agency, and Technology in Wikipedia and Chambers's Cyclopaedia

Textual Curation: Authorship, Agency, and Technology in Wikipedia and Chambers's Cyclopaedia

Kennedy, Krista

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Series: Studies in Rhetoric & Communication

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ISBN10: 161117709X
ISBN13: 9781611177091
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: Nov 3 2016
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

A study of the roles community, financial support, texts, information structures, interfaces, and technology play in collaborative works

Wikipedia is arguably the most famous collaboratively written text of our time, but few know that nearly three hundred years ago Ephraim Chambers proposed an encyclopedia written by a wide range of contributors--from illiterate craftspeople to titled gentry. Chambers wrote that incorporating information submitted by the public would considerably strengthen the second edition of his well-received Cyclop dia, which relied on previously published information. In Textual Curation, Krista Kennedy examines the editing and production histories of the Cyclop dia and Wikipedia, the ramifications of robot-written texts, and the issues of intellectual property theory and credit. Kennedy also documents the evolution of both encyclopedias as well as the participation of central players in discussions about the influence of technology and collaboration in early modern and contemporary culture.

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