| Abstract
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Wikipedia is often discussed as the first … Wikipedia is often discussed as the first of its kind: the first massively collaborative, Web-based encyclopedia that belongs to the public domain. While it's true that wiki technology enables large-scale, distributed collaborations in revolutionary ways, the concept of a collaborative encyclopedia is not new, and neither is the idea that private ownership might not apply to such documents. More than 275 years ago, in the preface to the 1728 edition of his Cyclop�dia , Ephraim Chambers mused on the intensely collaborative nature of the volumes he was about to publish. His thoughts were remarkably similar to contemporary intellectual property arguments for Wikipedia , and while the composition processes involved in producing these texts are influenced by the available technologies, they are also unexpectedly similar. This dissertation examines issues of authorial agency in these two texts and shows that the {Author} Construct" is not static across eras genres or textual technologies. In contrast to traditional considerations of the poetic author the encyclopedic author demonstrates a different form of authorial agency that operates within strict genre conventions and does not place a premium on originality. This and related variations challenge contemporary ideas concerning the divide between print and digital authorship as well as the notion that new media intellectual property arguments are without historical precedent."guments are without historical precedent."
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| Added by wikilit team
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Added on initial load +
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| Collected data time dimension
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Longitudinal +
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| Comments
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authorship is a fluctuating construct that alters according to textual and rhetorical situation.
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| Conclusion
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authorship is a fluctuating construct that alters according to textual and rhetorical situation.
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| Conference location
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United States, Minnesota +
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| Data source
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Wikipedia pages +
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| Google scholar url
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http://scholar.google.com/scholar?ie=UTF-8&q=%22Textual%2Bcurators%2Band%2Bwriting%2Bmachines%3A%2Bauthorial%2Bagency%2Bin%2Bencyclopedias%2C%2Bprint%2Bto%2Bdigital%22 +
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| Has author
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Krista A. Kennedy +
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| Has domain
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Rhetoric +
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| Has topic
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Encyclopedias +
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| Peer reviewed
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Yes +
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| Publication type
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Thesis +
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| Published in
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University of Minnesota +
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| Research design
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Case study +
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| Research questions
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This dissertation examines issues of authorial agency in these two texts and shows that the “Author Construct” is not static across eras, genres, or textual technologies.
This dissertation is a comparative case study grounded in rhetorical analysis.
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| Revid
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10,959 +
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| Theories
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I rely on Lloyd Bitzer’s model of rhetorical situation as a way of considering the ways in which central rhetorical factors are constituted and influenced by fluctuating external forces
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| Theory type
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Explanation +
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| Title
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Textual curators and writing machines: authorial agency in encyclopedias, print to digital
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| Unit of analysis
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Website +
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| Url
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http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1850115751&Fmt=7&clientId=10306&RQT=309&VName=PQD +
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| Wikipedia coverage
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Main topic +
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| Wikipedia data extraction
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Live Wikipedia +
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| Wikipedia language
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English +
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| Wikipedia page type
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Article +
, History +
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| Year
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2009 +
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| Creation dateThis property is a special property in this wiki.
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15 March 2012 20:30:38 +
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| Categories |
Encyclopedias +
, Rhetoric +
, Publications +
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| Modification dateThis property is a special property in this wiki.
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30 January 2014 20:31:31 +
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