Exploring Contemporary Classification Practices

Organizing Information, Technological Change and Ideological Contestation
Herausgeber: Andersen, Jack; Hansson, Joacim

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The contributions in Exploring Contemporary Classification Practices analyse various aspects of classification and their importance to contemporary debates surrounding cultural heritage and information access.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781032997230
• ISBN-10: 1032997230
• Artikelnr.: 73530019

Autorenporträt

Jack Andersen is an Associate Professor with a PhD in the Department of Communication at the University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on how classification practices, particularly in digital media, influence the categorization, understanding, and treatment of information, individuals, and groups in society. Andersen investigates the social, cultural, and political implications of these practices, which range from algorithms to digital archiving. His work incorporates concepts from rhetorical genre theory, classification theory, cultural techniques, communication and media theory, as well as cultural and social theory. Joacim Hansson is Professor of Library and Information Science at the Department of Cultural Sciences, Linnaeus University, Sweden. His research focuses on three main areas: Library Studies, with a special focus on the institutional identities of public libraries in contemporary democratic development; Document Theory; and Knowledge Organization with a special focus on classification theory and the relationship between metadata practices and societal development, from both historical and contemporary perspectives. He is Academic Leader at the European University for Well-being (EUniWell) and Head of the Linnaeus University Critical Knowledge Organization Research Group.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Exploring Classification Practices in Contemporary Culture: An
Introduction; Part 1: The Use of Technologies in Classification Work:
Social and Cultural Implications; 2. Classifying Humans in the Age of AI;
3. The Automation of Genre: Popular Culture, Classification and the Will to
Automate; 4. Classification, Photography, Eugenics: The Colonial Machine in
Sápmi; Part 2: Cultural Heritage and New Materialism; 5. The Value of
Damaged Goods: Experimenting with New Materialist Classification; 6.
Metadata for Indigenous Collections: the case of Museum of World Culture;
7. The Artist's Name - On Rhizomatic Structures and a Gendering Divider;
Part 3: Classification as method and analytic strategy; 8. LGBTQ+ Fiction
Indexing: Comparing the Value of Professional Index Terms, Social Tags and
Automatically Assigned Terms for Information Retrieval; 9. Selecting
Everything: Digitization as an Act of Classification; 10. Representing the
Aboutness of Fiction: Three Perspectives Toward Classification and Access
to Fictional Content; 11. Boundary Work and the Classification of
Scientific Quality in Infrastructures for Performance-Based Research
Funding