Genres without Writers: Information Systems and Distributed Authorship

Feinberg, Melanie

doi:10.1108/s2055-537720140000011004

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“…The goal of tracing and analyzing genres, Miller (1984) explains, is "in effect, ethnomethodological: it seeks to explicate the knowledge that practice creates" (p. 155). Based on Miller's foundational insight, the concept of sociomaterial genre was developed further following the work of Spinuzzi (2003), Foscarini (2012bMacNeil (2012), andFeinberg (2015) to identify a broad range of socio-material artifacts-finding aids, workflows, training manuals, taxonomies, metadata schemes, schedules, calendars, and software interfaces and software tools-and to provide a framework for analyzing their agency in practice by tracing the social expectations, meanings, and frames of reference associated with their use. Thus, in sum, following Nicolini's (2013) call for building a context-sensitive theory method-package, the above discussed conceptual framework posits that appraisal and preservation at the CBC practices are:…”

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“…Gracy (2007) has drawn on Bourdieu's theoretical framework of field and habitus to account for the institutional stratification between commercial and nonprofit practices within a single field (film archiving) and the diverse conceptions of worth and value within this field. Gilliland (2014a;2015) has examined ethnographically the relationship between affect and agency in archival work in post-conflict zones. MacNeil (2012) and Foscarini (2012a) have used the concept of genre developed in the field of rhetorical genre studies to examine the extent to which textual artifacts and rhetorical conventions regulate the continuity of social actions within a given field or an organization.…”

Section: The Sociological Line Of Critique Of Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

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Practice theory: a new approach for archival and recordkeeping research

Ivanov

2017

RMJ

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce a qualitative research approach based on current developments in the field of practice theory. The novelty of this approach is that it positions organizational practices as a central unit of analysis of archival and recordkeeping work. The goal of the paper is to highlight the continuity between practice theory and archival and recordkeeping scholarship and to then propose how practice theory could be used in archival and recordkeeping research. Design/methodology/approach The paper traces the continuity between practice theory and two influential bodies of literature in archival and recordkeeping scholarship developed in the last two decades. It then outlines a practice theory research agenda for archival and recordkeeping research by drawing on the disciplines of cultural sociology, science and technology studies, ethnomethodology and organizational studies. The potential research application of practice theory is illustrated with examples from an on-going doctoral project on appraisal and preservation practices in a digital broadcasting archive. Findings The analysis of current literature shows an agreement that archival and recordkeeping practices exhibit a complexity that makes them important foci for further research. By placing these insights into contact with practice theory, the paper champions a new research agenda for archival and recordkeeping research. Originality/value The paper positions and outlines the tenets of practice theory, making them methodologically available to archival and recordkeeping scholars and practitioners. It also indicates how practice theory offers a new perspective for conceptualizing the causal effects of organizational culture on organizational practices.

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Practice theory: a new approach for archival and recordkeeping research

Ivanov

2017

RMJ

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“…Following Miller (1984) and broadening the perspective from informational to social genres, also information seeking and situated appropriation can be seen as typified and recurrent forms of social action, or (social) genres. Similarly to how the organisation of knowledge and its related communicative actions (in-cluding searching, arranging, sharing, archiving, ordering, tagging and listing and others) are for Andersen (2017a;2017b), or "digital library is a genre" for Feinberg (2015), also the social phenomenon of situational appropriation can be considered as "a typified response to a particular social situation" (Feinberg, 2015). As Andersen (2017a) suggests in the context of knowledge organisation, conceptualising information seeking and situational appropriation as genres can help to deessentialise also them as being infrastructural rather than superstructural, and as means rather thans ends in relation to other goals.…”

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Genres and situational appropriation of information

Huvila

2019

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Purpose Information science research has begun to broaden its traditional focus on information seeking to cover other modes of acquiring information. The purpose of this paper is to move forward on this trajectory and to present a framework for explicating how in addition to being sought, existing information are made useful and taken into use. Design/methodology/approach A conceptual enquiry draws on an empirical vignette based on an observation study of an archaeological teaching excavation. The conceptual perspective builds on Andersen’s genre approach and Huvila’s notion of situational appropriation. Findings This paper suggests that information becomes appropriable, and appropriated (i.e. taken into use), when informational and social genres intertwine with each other. This happens in a continuous process of (re)appropriation of information where existing information scaffolds new information and the on-going process of appropriation. Originality/value The approach is proposed as a potentially powerful conceptualisation for explicating information interactions when existing information is taken into use rather than sought that have received little attention in traditional models and theories of human information behaviour.

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“…Studying the web profiles as a genre from this perspective can build further knowledge about how the genre is constructed at a particular point in time and, as an extension of this, how it may come to shape the practices in which it plays a role (comp. Feinberg, 2015).…”

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“…These platforms in many cases include not only information uploaded by the researcher, but also mash-ups and user-generated as well as system-generated content. Consequently, the academic web profile will be investigated as an example of a genre which is co-authored by the researcher and the platform (see Feinberg, 2015). A distinctive feature of this genre, where an important aim is to market the researcher, is the portrayal of the researcher as remarkable.…”

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The academic web profile as a genre of “self-making”

Francke

2019

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Purpose The activities of academic researchers are increasingly regulated by neo-liberal ideals, including expectations that researchers are visible online and actively promote their output. The purpose of this paper is to explore how researchers take on this responsibility. It uses the concepts of genre, authorship and self-writing in order to understand how the story of an academic life is constructed on academic web profiles. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative content analysis was conducted of material on 64 profiles belonging to 20 researchers on institutional and personal websites, as well as on ResearchGate, Academica.edu and Google Scholar. Findings The study shows that while institutional websites primarily contain researcher-produced material, content on commercial platforms is often co-constructed through distributed authorship by the researcher, the platform and other platform users. Nine different ways in which the profile of an “academic self” may be said to highlight the particular strengths of a researcher are identified. These include both metrics-based strengths and qualitative forms of information about the academic life, such as experience, the importance of their research and good teaching. Social implications This study of academic web profiles contributes to a better understanding of how researchers self-govern the story of their academic self, or resist such governance, in online environments. Originality/value The study furthers the knowledge of how researchers make use of and respond to digital tools for online visibility opportunities and how the story of the “academic self” is “made” for such public presentation.

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Genres without Writers: Information Systems and Distributed Authorship

Cited by 7 publications

References 11 publications

Practice theory: a new approach for archival and recordkeeping research

Practice theory: a new approach for archival and recordkeeping research

Genres and situational appropriation of information

The academic web profile as a genre of “self-making”

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