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Det bekönade museet : Genusperspektiv i museologi och museiverksamhet
- 2005
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Vad finns i museets dolda vrår, på vindar och i magasin? Och vad avslöjar samlingarna om olika epokers insamlingspraxis och ideologier? Vilka normer och värderingar blottläggs? Sådana frågor diskuteras i denna antologi med genusperspektiv som en självklar utgångspunkt. Museiarbetets teori och praktik, kulturella produktion och institutionella ramverk granskas med könsmedveten blick. I fokus för diskussionen står museernas olika verksamheter: utställningar, förvärv, samlingar, organisation och museipedagogik. Här finns artiklar av mer teoretisk karaktär liksom texter som förmedlar en personlig erfarenhet av museivärlden. Det bekönade museet är en introduktion till området museer och genus.
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- Hammarfelt, Björn, 1980-
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Following the Footnotes : A Bibliometric Analysis of Citation Patterns in Literary Studies
- 2012
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis provides an in-depth study of the possibilities of applying bibliometric methods to the research field of literary studies. The four articles that constitute the backbone of this thesis focus on different aspects of references and citations in literary studies: from the use of references in the text to citation patterns among 34 literature journals. The analysis covers both an Anglo-Saxon context as well as research in Swedish literary studies, and the materials used include Web of Science data, references in the Swedish literature journal TFL (Tidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap) and applications to the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet). A study is also made of the influence of one single publication—Walter Benjamin’s Illuminations—and its impact in literary studies and in wider academia.The results from the four articles are elaborated upon using a theoretical framework that focuses on differences in the social and intellectual organization of research fields. According to these theories literary studies can be described as a fragmented, heterogenic, interdisciplinary and ‘rural’ field with a diverse audience. The fragmented and rural organization of the field is reflected in low citation frequencies as well as in the difficulties in discerning research specialities in co-citation mappings, while the analysis of the intellectual base (highly cited authors) is an example of the heterogenic and interdisciplinary character of the field, as it includes authors from many fields across the humanities and the social sciences.The thesis emphasizes that bibliometric studies of research fields in the humanities need to incorporate non-English and non-journal publications in order to produce valid and fair results. Moreover, bibliometric methods must be modified in accordance with the organization of research in a particular field, and differences in referencing practices and citation patterns ought to be considered. Consequently, it is advised that bibliometric measures for evaluating research in these fields should, if used at all, be applied with great caution.
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- Hedemark, Åse, 1973-
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Det föreställda folkbiblioteket : En diskursanalytisk studie av biblioteksdebatter i svenska medier 1970-2006
- 2009
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this thesis is to analyze debates and discourses about the public library in Swedish media from the 1970s up to and including 2006. The empirical material is derived from TV, radio and the daily press and by using discourse theory and methodology a number of debates are problematized. The result of the analysis showed similarities but also differences between dominant discourses during different decades. One discourse, termed the book discourse, recurs during all the decades of the study. The book discourse is primarily associated with concepts such as printed books, good quality fiction and popular education. The 1970s is dominated by a discourse called the community centre discourse. It called for public libraries to become community centers for various kinds of cultural and political activities. The information mediation discourse appeared first in the 1980s and was present during the 1990s and the following decade. This discourse argues that public libraries should prioritize new technology and engage primarily in mediating information, irrespective of the format in which it is presented. The analysis as a whole also revealed that authors often had a prominent position in and exerted substantial influence over the content of the debates. Librarians, however, did not participate to any great extent in the debates. In the conclusion I argue that there are important aspects of the public library that does not appear in the material. The role of the library as a meeting place is one such absent theme. Another is the importance of the library to ensure integration. I argue that this invisibility is a result of the book discourse dominating the debate. If the public image of the library is defined from the viewpoint of the book discourse, the result can well be that the institution is equated with a specific media format - printed books. Because of significant changes in media consumption and the ongoing digitization of information, this focus could in the long run mean that the library risks loss of legitimacy. Describing the library as a cultural institution, as a community centre or as an information centre depends on different discourses that aim to further different wills and interests. By highlighting the political, professional and institutional interests articulated in dominant discourses on the public library in Swedish media during a period of almost 40 years, this study suggests that the media debates must be widened and opened up for more actors.
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- Jansson, Ina-Maria
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Förflutenhet för alla? : Digitalt deltagande som metod för demokratisk kulturarvsproduktion
- 2023
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis is about the participatory production of cultural heritage and its regulation by institutional information structures in digital settings. The thesis combines perspectives from the scholarly fields of information studies, cultural heritage studies and cultural memory studies. The prerequisites for formation of more inclusive cultural heritage collections through digital participation is investigated by studies of how institutional information structures dictates conditions for heritagisation of information both as thing and as process. By profiling institutional creation of cultural heritage collections as a special mode of heritage production, the thesis advance the understanding of the conditions for digital participation as a method for heritage creation and negotiation in institutional information environments.The institutional heritage production is theorised based on the concepts of infrastructuring, heritagisation, rhetoric agency of knowledge organisation systems, and an understanding of cultural heritage as building on dynamic passages between memory and forgetting. The thesis comprises four articles. The first investigates cases of exclusion of participatory created image-metadata in information systems. The second is about participatory infrastructuring in an archival transcription project. The third article studies how participants position contemporary photographs as heritage in relation to an institutional collection. The fourth article questions the problematisation of participatory influence with the aim to challenge the idea of participation being perceived of as a threat to preservation in memory institutions. The thesis found that the possibilities to create inclusive heritage collections with digital participation are limited, partly because of limitations in information structures within which the participation takes place. To facilitate diversification, institutions need to implement flexible information structures that provide support for user-generated information. This might require institutions to re-evaluate their approach to preservation and open up for flexible strategies which recognise constructive forgetting and negotiation of heritage as part of their responsibility and day-to-day work with heritage collections. One of the biggest challenges for institutions is therefore how to tune in to such a dynamic approach to heritage and how to prepare for participatorily generated suggestions and additions, while at the same time, keeping up with caring for integrity and preservation of heritage and heritage metadata.
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- Juneström, Amalia, 1979-
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Content Moderation and Fact-Checking : A Study of Journalists’ Information Practices in the Contemporary News Media Landscape
- 2022
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis in information studies is about journalists’ and news media professionals’ engagement in two specific information practices that have become integrated into contemporary journalism. Two of the four articles included in this thesis focus on content moderation and two on fact-checking. All four articles were written within the framework of information studies.The two practices—content moderation of online news media comments sections and fact-checking—have emerged within the evolving information landscape of digital journalism. The aim of this thesis is to explore how these practices are constructed through journalists’ and news media professionals’ conceptualization of misbehaving users online and the spreading of misinformation.The thesis focuses on content moderation and fact-checking as responses to how journalists experience the perceived problems of online misconduct and misinformation. By combining the five concepts information landscape, information practice, discourse, information infrastructure, and genre, this thesis advances our understanding of the processes through which new information practices and genres emerge and take shape within the specific news media environment of the contemporary information age.This research found that content moderation and contemporary fact-checking are thoroughly intertwined with journalists’ notions of what their professional mission is. While the same motives were cited in legitimizing completely opposing actions, the same actions were often justified by citing very different principles. These conflicting ideals and motives were found to underpin the practices regardless of the national affiliation of the studied actors. There were no indications that the problems of misbehaving users and the spreading of misinformation were understood or discussed differently in the various geographical locations where the studied practices of content moderation and fact-checking occur.This thesis ascertained that the practitioners draw on the moral values, traditions, and ideas of what it means to be a journalist when legitimizing content moderation and fact-checking. Furthermore, it found an ongoing struggle between the conflicting ideals and motives that underpin these practices.
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- Kjellman, Ulrika, 1963-
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Från kungaporträtt till läsketikett : en domänanalytisk studie över Kungl. bibliotekets bildsamling med särskild inriktning mot katalogiserings- och indexeringsfrågor
- 2006
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- A prerequisite for pictures to be studied and used as sources of knowledge is that they are collected, organised, and made accessible. The aim of this thesis has been to analyse these processes within a specific cultural heritage institution – the National Library of Sweden’s picture collection.Pictures play a central role as bearers of communication and information in the information space of our society. They have increasingly drawn attention to themselves both as historical artefacts and as culturally important and “identity creating” objects. In addition, recent technological advances make it possible to disseminate pictures in a hitherto unprecedented manner, leading to new challenges in how to improve access to such material. Much attention has been geared toward finding and implementing a standard solution applicable for various tasks and situations, irrespective of domains.In contrast to such homogenising ambitions, I instead argue for the elaboration of solutions more sensitive to domain specific demands, where the comprehen-sion of pictures must be sought in shared communities of meaning. Influenced by socio-cultural and discursive perspectives this study sees knowledge and meaning as historically constructed and socially situated.The study is divided into two main parts. Part One includes the introduction and the discussion of theory and method. Part Two consists of the empirical investigation and a conclusion. The former consists of four chapters centering on the historical background, a presentation of the picture material, the institutional practices and the knowledge organisation tools deployed by the National Library’s Picture Collection. In the conclusion I argue that our visual cultural heritage is constructed with the aid of the tools, discourses, and practices used in our institutional settings; in this particular case the Picture Collection of The National Library of Sweden.
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- Nyström, Per, 1960-
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Att göra historia : En kritisk studie av historieämnet som kunskapsorganiserande system
- 2011
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The central theme of the present thesis is the history subject viewed as a knowledge organizing system (KOS). The history subject is studied as a class within the two universal classification systems SAB and DDC, where it is characterized by a conceptual intention and extension giving it a unique identity. The form and structure characterizing the history subject in these KOS are present in other artefacts as well, and world history works function as supplementary empirical examples to SAB and DDC. The established conception of word history is reproduced via a number of prioritized channels, producing a hegemonic formation termed the traditional formation. In that form, history appears as a coherent entity, logically separated from closely related subjects. From a semiotically inspired point of view, KOS are viewed as self-contained systems where the analysis reveal their identity as narratives rather than merely as neutral and universal categories. Instead of regarding the geographical axis as a division of territories, it is acknowledged as a division into “historical subjects”. Furthermore, the division of the temporal axis in periods is viewed as closely related to the narrative described by the historical subject. Thus, a better description of this supposedly neutral Newtonian time-room emerge through the Bakhtinian concept chronotope, intertwining a temporal and spatial dimension. This perspective enables a reading of KOS as a meaningful narrative. An analysis of this narrative reveal what best may be described as “the myth of the white man”. Assembled from a certain myth, the narrative may be contemplated as an expression of the interests of a small group at a certain point in time, rather than a truly universal story. In conclusion, the thesis questions the functionality of the studied systems, arguing for the importance of a critical and contextual analysis of KOS sensitive to historical change.
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- Sköld, Olle, 1983-
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Documenting Videogame Communities : A Study of Community Production of Information in Social-Media Environments and its Implications for Videogame Preservation
- 2018
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Drawing on the disciplines of library and information studies and archival studies, this study seeks to explore the production of information in online videogame communities and to elucidate how such insights can offer practical and conceptual support to the knotty issue of how to preserve those sociocultural aspects of videogames that exist 'beyond' the code and audiovisual data resources of the videogame itself. This is accomplished in two principal moves: (i) by delving into the current state of socioculturally-focused videogame preservation and; (ii) by inquiring into the production of information carried out by videogame communities in what arguably is one of their most important interfaces of interaction—discussion forums, wikis, and other social-media services. The study is based on four papers (I–IV). Paper I develops the theoretical framework of the study on the basis of practice theory and document theory. Papers II and III report on field-studies of videogame-community information production in the context of two processes of importance in community social life: memory-making (II) and knowledge production (III). Paper IV offers a qualitative systematic review of videogame-archiving literature, allowing Papers I–III to be situated in an archival context. The study employs multiple methods and encompasses several empirical sites of inquiry and was inspired by the framework of exploratory research and of 'bricolage' research strategies.The results of the study add to the present state of knowledge on how information in the social-media environments of the large and influential present-day videogaming domain emerges as a result of community practices of production, and how videogame-community social life is entangled with information production in such spaces. The study also furthers archival inquiry on the topic of videogame preservation by providing a description and analysis of what information objects videogame-related social media plausibly hold, and by what communal practices and processes they have been brought into existence. Furthermore, the study examines the consequences of collecting community-produced social media and framing it as documentation of the sociocultural aspects of videogames—a key issue in videogames preservation.
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