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Beyond the legacy of the Enlightenment? Online encyclopaedias as digital heterotopias

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

This article explores how we can understand contemporary participatory online encyclopaedic expressions, particularly Wikipedia, in their traditional role as continuation of the Enlightenment ideal, as well as in the distinctly different space of the Internet. Firstly we position these encyclopaedias in a historical tradition. Secondly, we assign them a place in contemporary digital networks which marks them out as sites in which Enlightenment ideals of universal knowledge take on a new shape. We argue that the Foucauldian concept of heterotopia, that is special spaces which exist within society, transferred online, can serve to understand Wikipedia and similar participatory online encyclopaedias in their role as unique spaces for the construction of knowledge, memory and culture in late modern society.

Avdelning/ar

Publiceringsår

2010

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

First Monday

Volym

15

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

University of Illinois

Ämne

  • Information Studies

Nyckelord

  • encyclopaedia
  • wikipedia
  • heterotopia
  • enlightenment

Status

Published

Forskningsgrupp

  • Information Studies
  • Information Practices: Communication, Culture and Society

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1396-0466