Christian Enichlmayr, Leiter der Oberösterreichischen Landesbibliothek von 1999 bis 2015, beantwortet 10 Fragen von Bruno Bauer

In this 10-question interview Christian Enichlmayr tells us about the start of his career in the publishing business, his library employment at the University Linz and his job change to the Federal Study Library Linz. He was the head of the descendent organization from 1999 to 2015 and therefore responsible for the transformation and modernisation of the former study library into the Upper Austrian State Library. During this time the library building had a major refurbishment and got outstanding annexe. The interview covers important topics at the Upper Austrian State Library from the last 17 years, including NS provenance research, the advancement of the digital library and the promotion of the library in order to become a substantial part of the Upper Austrian cultural live. Furthermore Mr. Enichlmayr explains the significance of cooperation among libraries and gives a summary of the meeting of the Austrian Librarian Association in Linz in 2004. In a final point he mentions possible prospects of libraries

Links ist dumm – Zur Konstruktion rechter Meinungsführerschaft in Online-Diskussionen

Sharing the notion of identity as a dynamic construct within social interaction (cf. Kresic 2006; Mead 1968; Tajfel 1978), the paper traces the strategic manoeuvers by which far and extreme right users try to obtain opinion leadership in online debates. Based on the concept of "communities of practice" (cf. Wenger 2010, 2000, 1998; Wenger/McDermott/Snyder 2002; Lave/Wenger 1991), the qualitative as well as quantitative analysis of 1047 user comments combines conversation analytic approaches to identity construction (cf. a. o. De Fina/Shiffrin/Bamberg 2006; Bucholtz/Hall 2005, 2003) with typical far and extreme right argumentation schemes specified by critical discourse analysis (cf. a. o. Reisigl/Wodak 2001; Wetherell/Potter 1992; Wodak et al. 1990; van Dijk 1987). The results show that within far and extreme right communities of practice, differing comments are no longer seen as legitimate contribution to the debate, but are considered as personal lack of understanding and, ultimately, as proof of the opponent's intellectual inadequacy