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!)

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