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Monthly Archives: September 2014
Schedule
Date | Theme | Room | Teacher |
09-10 | Introduction | Marc | IH |
09-17 | Literature seminar ICompulsory readings:
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Marc | IH |
09-24 | Literature seminar IIReadings (each students chooses one paper to present to the group):
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Marc | IH |
Week 40 | Virtual Synopsis seminar
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IH | |
Week 42 | Virtual Draft paper seminar
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IH | |
Week 43 | Deadline for the final version of the paper for marking is on Sunday by midnight. Submit the paper by email to the lecturer. | IH |
Readings
Obligatory readings for the seminar 1
- Benkler, Y. & Nissenbaum, H. Commons-based Peer Production and Virtue. Journal of Political Philosophy, 2006, 14 (4), 394-419.
- Mager, A. Algorithmic ideology. Information, Communication & Society, 2012, 15 (5), 769-787.
- Fortunati, L.; Larsen, S. E. & Stamm, J. Introduction to the Special Section on Knowledge Management in Postmodern Society. The Information Society, 2012, 28 (4), 201-207.
- Tredinnick, L. Each One of us was Several: Networks, Rhizomes and Web Organisms. Knowledge Organization, 2013, 40 (6), 414-421.
Obligatory readings for the seminar 2
- Benjamin, W. The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction Penguin, 2008.
- Black, A. & Schiller, D. (2014) Systems of Information: The Long View. Library Trends, 62 (3), 628-662.
- Bowker, G. C.; Baker, K.; Millerand, F. & Ribes, D. Toward Information Infrastructure Studies: Ways of Knowing in a Networked Environment. Hunsinger, J.; Klastrup, L. & Allen, M. (ed.) The international handbook of internet research, Springer, 2010, 97-117.
- Cohen, E. Anthropology of knowledge. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2010, 16 (s1), S193-S202.
- Feenberg, A. From Critical Theory of Technology to the Rational Critique of Rationality Social Epistemology, 2008, 22, 5-28 .
- Flanagan, M.; Howe, D. & Nissenbaum, H. Embodying values in technology: Theory and practice Hoven, J. v. d. & Weckert, J. (Eds.) Information technology and moral philosophy, Cambridge University Press, Hoven2008, 322-353 .
- Franklin, S. Cloud Control, or The Network as Medium. Cultural Politics, 2012, 8 (3), 443-464.
- Law, J. Notes on the theory of the actor-network: Ordering, strategy, and heterogeneity Systems practice, 1992, 5, 379-393 .
- Leckie, G. J. & Buschman, J. Introduction Critical theory for library and information science exploring the social from across the disciplines, Libraries Unlimited, 2010, vii-xxii.
- Mattessich, R. The systems approach: its variety of aspects. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1982, 33, 383-394 .
- Orlikowski, W. J. The Duality of Technology: Rethinking the Concept of Technology in Organizations. Organization Science, 1992, 3, 398-427 .
- Pinch, T. J. & Bijker, W. E. The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts: or How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology might Benefit Each Other Social Studies of Science, 1984, 14, 399-441 .
- Weller, T. (2007) Information history: its importance, relevance and future. Aslib Proceedings, 59 (4), 437-448.
- Williams, R. & Edge, D. The social shaping of technology Research Policy, 1996, 25, 865-899 .
- Wilson, T. D. Activity theory and information seeking ARIST, 2008, 42, 119-161 .
- Woolgar, S. The Turn to Technology in Social Studies of Science Science, Technology & Human Values, 1991, 16, 20-50.
Thematic readings (suggestions)
- List of readings (including a list of suggested literature. Note that you are supposed to search relevant literature by yourself!)
Course information
Credits: 5 credits
Code: 361206.0
Level: Advanced level
Examiner: Dr Isto Huvila
Aim: to give insights in the impact of the introduction of digital technologies and digitisation of information in organisations; to give knowledge of the contemporary cultures of information and impact of cultural and societal discourses and practices on organisations and individuals; to give the students knowledge about how information behaviour and interaction in information processes can affect information architecture and the design and usability of systems; to give insights in the use of digital information and technologies in different organizations;
Contents: digitisation of information, digital technologies in organisations, theories of information society and culture, management of information processing in digital information environments; enterprise level information architecture; information interaction; information behaviour and digital information systems.
Assessment
Assessment is based on the paper (90%), seminar presentation (literature seminar I and II) (5%) and active participation in the seminars (5%).
The criteria for the paper are
- Clear, well-formulated and relevant problem statement
- Plausible answer/solution to the problem statement
- Extent and use of relevant literature
- Clearly and well-argued theoretical focus
- Clear, scholarly argumentation
- Own creative contribution