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Authorship, the Infosphere, and How We Value Information
- Author(s):
- Sam Dodd (see profile)
- Date:
- 2021
- Group(s):
- CityLIS
- Subject(s):
- Authorship, Library science, Information science
- Item Type:
- Essay
- Tag(s):
- collaborativeauthorship, Information theory, information value, infosphere, knowledgeeconomy, Library and information science, Social power
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/1wfh-0e39
- Abstract:
- This essay examines the ways in which authorship is considered a collaborative endeavour in the infosphere and the impact this is having on the ways that information is valued. It does this by looking at: the history of collaborative authorship; the modern figure of the author; contemporary collaborative authorship, and; by theorising on issues of trust and provenance; the difference between, and types of, online and print authorship; what role the Knowledge Economy plays in these discourses; and societal power dynamics in relation to who gets to decide the value of any given information.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 2 years ago
- License:
- Attribution
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