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Professional Digital Encyclopaedias as Socio-Technical Systems
Lunds Universitet.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8293-8208
2013 (English)Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This paper presents on-going research on the production of knowledge in contemporary professional digital encyclopaedias. By adopting a theoretical perspective that considers the interplay of humans, non-humans and practices at the same level, it develops further a socio-technical perspective on knowledge production. Methodologically, the project involves an ethnographic study staring from two editorial sites – the Swedish Nationalencyklopedin and the Norwegian Store Norske Leksikon. The empirical material consists of participatory observations, semi-structured interviews, informal conversations, internal documents, as well as the two encyclopaedias appearance on the web, in social and legacy media. The preliminary results point to a co-existence of old and new orders of knowledge. Traditional taxonomies and formal expertise blend with social media, Google Analytics and new orders of work. The way encyclopaedias adjust to Google exemplifies, albeit in different ways, the fundamental role of ‘management by Google’ in contemporary networked society. It is concluded that digital encyclopaedias, Wikipedia as well as Nationalencyklopedin and Norwegian Store Norske Leksikon, constitute interesting arenas for investigating changing demands on the production of public knowledge.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2013.
Keywords [en]
knowledge production, trust, digital encyclopaedias, ethnography, socio-technical theory, information studies
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Information Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-22735OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hb-22735DiVA, id: diva2:1427077
Conference
International Conference on Conceptions of Library and information Science, 2013 - Royal School of Library and Information Science, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark Duration: 2013 Aug 19 → 2013 Aug 22 Conference number: 8
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Available from: 2020-04-28 Created: 2020-04-28 Last updated: 2023-10-12Bibliographically approved

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