{"product_id":"textual-curation-krista-kennedy-9781611177091","title":"Textual Curation: Authorship, Agency, and Technology in Wikipedia and Chambers's Cyclopaedia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA study of the roles community, financial support, texts, information structures, interfaces, and technology play in collaborative works\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWikipedia 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 \u003ci\u003eTextual Curation, \u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough this comparative study, based on extensive archival research and data-driven analysis, Kennedy illuminates the deeply situated nature of authorship, which is dependent on cultural approval and stable funding sources as much as it is on original genius and the ownership of intellectual property. Kennedy's work significantly revises long-held notions of authorial agency and autonomy, establishing the continuity of new writing projects such as wikis with longstanding authorial practices that she calls textual curation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis study examines a wide range of texts that recompose accepted knowledge into reliable, complex reference works combining contributions of article text alongside less commonly considered elements such as metadata vocabularies, cross-indexing, and the development of print and digital interfaces. Comparison of analog and networked texts also lays bare the impact of technological developments, both in the composing process and in the topics that can practically be included in such a text. By examining the human and technological curators that support these encyclopedias as well as the discourses that surround them, Kennedy develops textual curation as a longstanding theory and process that offers a nuanced construction of authorship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Krista Kennedy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 161117709X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781611177091\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of South Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/03\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.70d","brand":"Krista Kennedy","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48447953043711,"sku":"9781611177091","price":54.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1de1babe-d427-4fdb-b790-a2242b6f990e.jpg?v=1777235921","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/textual-curation-krista-kennedy-9781611177091","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}