How Readers Shape the Content of an Encyclopedia: A Case Study Comparing the German Meyers Konversationslexikon (1885-1890) with Wikipedia (2002-2013)

How knowledge is negotiated between the makers of encyclopedias and their audiences remains an ongoing question in research on encyclopedias.A comparative content analysis of the published answers of letters to the editor of the German Meyers Konversationslexikon (Korrespondenzblatt) from 1885 and the Pants discussion pages of the article potato of

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Introduction to the special issue

The idea for this special issue developed from a conversation at an inter-national workshop where this guest-editor, the general editor of this journal, and several other linguists working on Spanish, Portuguese, Jewelry Copper Bracelets Catalan and Basque were present.The topic of the conversation was the perceived need to have a new linguistics j

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Introduction to the special issue

The idea for this special issue developed from a conversation at an inter-national workshop where this guest-editor, the general editor of this journal, and several other linguists working on Spanish, Portuguese, Jewelry Copper Bracelets Catalan and Basque were present.The topic of the conversation was the perceived need to have a new linguistics j

read more