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The networked life of professional encyclopaedias: quantification, tradition, and trustworthiness

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

The article aims at making visible new orders of encyclopaedic knowledge by means of an ethnographic study carried out during eight months at the editorial office of the leading commercial encyclopaedia in Sweden, Nationalencyklopedin. The investigation is framed in a socio-technical understanding of how people, technologies and practices relate to each other. Three themes were identified during the analysis: Organisation of labour amongst the editors, the use of statistics, and NE as a producer of facts versus a producer of analysis. The analysis revolves around the ambivalence, uncertainty, sometimes even friction, between traditional encyclopaedic knowledge and network culture. The often routine-based practices of updating articles meets ideas of project work, of open data, of algorithms and most of all of quantification.

Avdelning/ar

Publiceringsår

2013

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

First Monday

Volym

18

Issue

6

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

University of Illinois

Ämne

  • Information Studies

Nyckelord

  • information studies
  • encyclopaedias
  • trust
  • socio-technical perspective
  • digital culture
  • Nationalencyklopedin

Status

Published

Projekt

  • Encyclopaedias' Trustworthiness in the Digital Media Landscape

Forskningsgrupp

  • Information Studies
  • Information Practices: Communication, Culture and Society

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1396-0466