EBay, Wikipedia, and the future of the footnote

Theatre History Studies

Volumn 28, Issue , 2008, Pages 36-41

  Knapp, Margaret M ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84896501195     PISSN: 07332033     EISSN: 21669953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/ths.2008.0011     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. Kevin Kelly, "Scan This Book!" New York Times Magazine, May 14, 2006, 42-49, 65, 71. I am grateful to my Arizona State University colleague Tamara Underiner for alerting me to this article.
2. For a brief analysis of the pros and cons of digitization of books, see Katie Hafner, "History, Digitized (and Abridged)", New York Times, March 10, 2007, sec. 3:1.
3. For an eloquent analysis of the current copyright situation and its stifling effect on creativity, see Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity (New York: Penguin, 2004).
4. A brief summary of the controversy may be found in Eric Rauchway's article "Source Wars", TNR Online, March 21, 2007, http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=wo70319&s=rauchwayo32107.
5. For a fuller treatment of the decline of the footnote, see Chuck Zerby, The Devil's Details: A History of Footnotes (New York: Touchstone/Simon and Schuster, 2002);
6. and Anthony Grafton, The Footnote: A Curious History (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997). Both authors are primarily concerned with the future of the "content" footnote, in which an author makes a point not directly germane to the main argument or gives additional information or additional sources for the subject of the main text.