Textual Curation : Authorship, Agency, and Technology in Wikipedia and Chambers's Cyclopaedia
A study of the roles community, financial support, texts, information structures, interfaces, and technology play in collaborative worksWikipedia is arguably the most famous collaboratively written text of our time, but few know that nearly three hundred years ago Ephraim Chambers proposed an encycl...
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