Indian economist Amartya Sen (also here) was named among the world’s top ten public intellectuals in a poll by The Prospect and Foreign Policy. Fellow Editorial Board of Advisors member author and activist Wole Soyinka (also here) was among the nominees.
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After the dissolving of the last editorial board, how many times has this board met yet? I saw the press release when the new attempt was announced but no further information about the actual work of this board. Are you aware of any URLs I might have missed?
Comment by Mathias Schindler — October 26, 2005 @ 11:15 pm
While I’m not privy the day to day activities of the editorial board of advisors, I know that they have met more than once since the announcement in July. I also know that EB has made some editorial and product changes in response to their advice. I believe they plan to meet again in November.
I’m not aware of any specific public reports from or about the editorial board of adviors. It’s not clear to me why you would necessarily expect there to be some. Their role really is to advise EB on editorial direction, not public relations. It’s not suprising that this work would be done in private.
Comment by eblogger — October 26, 2005 @ 11:40 pm
Actually, I note that the article in the Boston Globe reads, in part, “the new board will meet twice a year to plot the direction for Britannica and fine-tune its editorial content”. As far as I know, they ar on track for that, if not exceeding it.
Comment by eblogger — October 27, 2005 @ 5:04 am
Thanks for the link.
When the news about this resurrected editorial board of advisors was given, some sentences were about the systemic bias in the EB content.
‘’There has to be far more attention to the Third World, to women, to alternative political groups, to alternative literature, and things and ideas that weren’t covered by the old Britannica, which was a white male thing.”
So one could simply assume that if the problems were mentioned in the press by Dillinger, EB would also mention the attempt to counter them somewhere.
You are right: The actual work can be done privatly. That does not mean that any trace of work has to be kept that way. In fact, I would applaud to that under the aspect of transparency. PR still could stress out any new lemma that wasn’t covered before or any shift in the focus of the topics or similar. That wouldn’t be an XOR decision.
Comment by Mathias Schindler — October 27, 2005 @ 10:01 am