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

First Monday

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Haider, Jutta ^a   Sundin, Olof ^a,b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

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