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- W849879151 abstract "In the West encyclopaedias have long functioned as the standard for defining what can be considered public, established knowledge in a given time and culture. The modern encyclopaedia, with its roots in the enlightenment, has come to symbolise science and reason (Yeo 2001). The encyclopaedia stands for trustworthiness and stability, at the same time as it has actually always changed hand in hand with cultural and technical developments. Most recently, connected to digitisation, encyclopaedias’ production, consumption, use, distribution and significance, are changing profoundly, so profound in fact that our society’s view of what encyclopaedic knowledge is, who should produce and vet for its reliability and how it should be used seems to be changing in every way. Having said that, our understanding of Wikipedia benefits from seeing the historical context of encyclopaedism, which is clearly a continued influence even today (Reagle & Loveland 2013). And at the same time as some mourn the demise of encyclopaedias communicated in print, encyclopaedic knowledge is ubiquitous as never before. It is produced collectively by many people and is a vital part of the web. While understandably a lot has been said about Wikipedia and from almost every angle (e.g. Jullien 2012), other contemporary, most often online encyclopaedias, especially professional ones, have not received that much attention in research. Yet they are two sides of the same coin. All this of course has to do with the enormous success of Wikipedia, which, according to Alexa.com, today holds a stable position amongst the six most popular websites in the world. Almost invariably it is a link to Wikipedia, which comes first in a search engine results page. It has even received one of popular culture’s most coveted stamps of approval and features in not one, but several episodes of ‘The Simpsons’ and obviously there is a Wikipedia entry recording this (Wikipedia 2014a). Wikipedia is a part of popular culture and fundamental to the information economy of today in a way – it seems safe to say – that no other encyclopaedia ever was fundamental to all parts of the society of its time. This new type of encyclopaedic knowledge is everywhere. Yet the ‘old’, the professional encyclopaedias are still there and they are far from obsolescent or unchanging. They are transforming themselves in the face of digitisation. Some give up, yet others continue either as general-purpose reference works or in niches and specialisations and even new ones are founded. They are present in schools, libraries and" @default.
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- W849879151 title "Changing Orders of Knowledge? Encyclopaedias in Transition" @default.
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