Knowledge management, informationsvidenskab

I november gæsteforelæser jeg over emnet Knowledge Management på den tidligere bibliotekshøjskole, nu IVA, Det Informationsvidenskabelige Akademi. Forelæsningerne tager afsæt i min ph.d. afhandling, idet jeg fokuserer på de dele af afhandlingen, der belyser hvordan viden skabes og cirkulerer i form af intelligente objekter. Mit oplæg lyder som følger:

(I) ANT – case methodology, process philosophy or the act making mediators present

In the first two lessons I intend to focus on ANT as a sensitivity towards how (im)material actors effect the co-production of knowledge. I will introduce ANT the way I applied it in my own research referring, among others, to Hernes' interpretation (Hernes 2008: 59-77) and calling, however, on original texts by Latour and Law ((for an introduction, see e.g. Hassard, Kelemen et al. 2008: 45-71). I expect to focus on ways in which ANT may be used to research and understand the nature of socio-material becoming (Fenwick 2009) as 'heterogenesis', a concept I introduced to propose a way to analyze processes of human and non-human agency as co-emergence, indeed, how intelligent objects, models and humans become, if nothing else, knowable resources.

(II) Objectifying knowledge. The case of becoming object (Virtual collaboration)

In my second set of lectures I intend to take into consideration questions and particular points of interest generated during my initial visit, however, I will present and discuss with you, in detail, how to account for objectification (heterogenesis). I do this using exclusive recordings and observations from two Danish drawing rooms (as a back-drop see e.g. Schmidt and Wagner 2004) – discussing how actors apparently co-emerge. To that end the idea of collaboration centred on so-called intelligent objects (recalling e.g.Star and Griesemer 1989) and knowing as situated, distributed and material (Blackler 1995) could be included.

(III) Literature

Blackler, F. (1995). "Knowledge, knowledge work and organizations: an overview and interpretation." Organization Studies 1(6): 1021-1046.
Fenwick, T. (2009). Re-thinking the 'thing': Sociomaterial approaches to understanding and researching learning in work. The 6th International Conference on Researching Work and Learning, Roskilde.
Hassard, J., M. Kelemen, et al. (2008). Disorganization Theory. London & New York, Routledge.
Hernes, T. (2008). Understanding organization as process - Theory for a tangled world. London, Routledge.
Schmidt, K. and I. Wagner (2004). "Ordering systems: Coordinative practices and artifacts in architectural design and planning." Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW): The Journal of Collaborative Computing 13(5-6): 349-408.
Star, S. L. and J. R. Griesemer (1989). "Institutional Ecology, 'Translations' and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-39." Social Studies of Science 19: 397-420.