The networked life of professional encyclopaedias: quantification, tradition, and trustworthiness
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
- Avdelningen för ABM, digitala kulturer samt förlags- och bokmarknadskunskap
- Information Practices: Communication, Culture and Society
Publiceringsår
2013
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
First Monday
Volym
18
Issue
6
Länkar
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