{"id":372,"date":"2016-11-16T23:20:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T22:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/das-dokumentarische.blogs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de\/?page_id=372"},"modified":"2020-07-06T12:10:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T10:10:47","slug":"katja-grashoefer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/das-dokumentarische.blogs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de\/en\/kollegiat_innen\/katja-grashoefer\/","title":{"rendered":"Katja Grash\u00f6fer, M.A."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nE-Mail: katja.grashoefer@rub.de<\/p>\n

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Title of the Dissertation<\/u><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Lemmas 2.0 – Documenting Events in Wikipedia<\/p>\n

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Project Description
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This PhD-project focuses on the analysis of a special kind of lemma<\/em> in the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia: It deals with those lemmas that describe events of the recent past<\/em>. One example of such an article is the Wikipedia entry \u201cLove Parade disaster\u201d. Lemma and article document an event for which no other comparable article exists in a conventional, printed encyclopaedia. The remarkable online publication of the lemma in Wikipedia is not only the result of a modified editing process, but also of a fundamentally changed understanding and new concept of the encyclopaedic form<\/em> itself.<\/p>\n

Both new technologies, which facilitate the production of user-generated content, and a writing process based on the ideas of collaboration and collective intelligence lead Wikipedia towards the creation of a corpus that gives rise to new criteria of encyclopaedic knowledge<\/em>. Everyone can add and edit content. Articles proliferate along with the interests of their authors. The excessive, immediate and constantly ongoing documentation of events<\/em> within Wikipedia illustrates the effort to prevent withdrawal, which would otherwise lead to a loss of information.<\/p>\n

Technical and content-related aspects interact in this connection: Wikipedia is a database and Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia. The genesis and effects of the documentary form become visible through the analysis of event-lemmas, their stored article versions, and related author discussions. They exhibit the procedures and performances of  documentary. The collective writing process of these articles can be regarded as a form of collective remembrance<\/em> referring to the depicted event. Collective memories are part of social narratives<\/em>. They influence present decision-making processes. Therefore, the analysis of event-lemmas leads to an understanding of transformed conditions of social consensus. It will help to describe and characterize the self-conception of a diversified, digital community<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Scholarly Career
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