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Posts Tagged: encyclopedia histories

Joseph Reagle: Wikipedia and Encyclopedic Anxiety

By erincsalor, March 26, 2010

Reagle’s presentation can be accessed on his own website. I want to make sense some of the criticism Wikipedia receives in a historical frame. I want to do this in a very simple proposition, that; reference works embody larger social anxieties. One of the central things about thinking about encyclopedias is through their motives. Because [...]

Dan O’Sullivan: An Encyclopedia for the Times: Thoughts on Wikipedia from a Historical Perspective

By erincsalor, March 26, 2010

I will present a history of encyclopedias with respect to Wikipedia. I will specifically focus on the question, whether they were conservative or radical enterprises for their time. It should be noted that encyclopedia is a very mobile genre. It has meant different things to different people throughout time. It can be traced back to [...]

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