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Textual Curation: Authorship, Agency, and Technology in Wikipedia and Chambers’s Cyclopædia: Dedication
Textual Curation: Authorship, Agency, and Technology in Wikipedia and Chambers’s Cyclopædia
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table of contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Series Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgments
Note on Styles and Conventions
Introduction
Curation
Artifacts
Chapter 1: Distributed Curatorial Practices
Textual Curation and Authorship
Curatorial Authorship
Curation and Invisibility
Rhetorical Agency and Collectives
Chapter 2: Crowdfunding Curation
Networks of Material Support: The Cyclopædia
The Publishers
The Subscribers
Networks of Material Support: Wikipedia
Chapter 3: Metaphors of Curation
Early Modern Metaphors for Intellectual Property Ownership
The Daw and the Honeybee
The Bees in Chambers’ Library
Honeybees and Transformative Authorship
Bees as an Economic Good
Bees and the Ethos of Scientific Enlightenment
Bees and Distributed Labor
The Hive as Commonwealth
The Swarm
Chapter 4: Content Contributors, Vandals, and the Ontology of Curation
Content Contributors to the Cyclopædia
Wikipedia: Content Contributors
Managing Content Contributions
Managing Scope: Deletionism and Inclusionism
Eventualism, Immediatism, and the Compositional Life of Articles
Vandalism
Chapter 5: Production Collectives: Page and Screen
Printed Page as Interface
Dreams of Mechanization
Wikipedian Interfaces, Development, and Curation
Chapter 6: Automated Curation
Historical Context
Bots in Wikipedia
Automated Agency
Identity and Attributed Agency
Bots at Work
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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