”Jäklar, vad snabbt det går när man får snurr på det” : rättsvetares förståelse och användning av sociala plattformar för vetenskaplig kommunikation
(2019) ABMM54 20191Division of ALM and Digital Cultures
- Abstract
- The purpose of this thesis is to create an increased understanding of how legal scholars use social platforms as a part of their scholarly communication. As a result of the digitalization of society social platforms have become a seemingly ubiquitous part of everyday life, and research shows that scholars are using social platforms as a part of scholarly communication. The starting point for this thesis is that scholarly communication is influenced by a continuous interplay between social and technical aspects.
Our ontological understanding is informed by Science and Technology Studies primarily actor-network theory. This approach makes it possible to understand how human activities are shaped by non-human actors such as technologies,... (More) - The purpose of this thesis is to create an increased understanding of how legal scholars use social platforms as a part of their scholarly communication. As a result of the digitalization of society social platforms have become a seemingly ubiquitous part of everyday life, and research shows that scholars are using social platforms as a part of scholarly communication. The starting point for this thesis is that scholarly communication is influenced by a continuous interplay between social and technical aspects.
Our ontological understanding is informed by Science and Technology Studies primarily actor-network theory. This approach makes it possible to understand how human activities are shaped by non-human actors such as technologies, objects and values. These activities are part of what make up practices, such as scholarly communication, and are formed by their socio-technical context. The study draws on six qualitative, semi-structured interviews with legal scholars at two different universities. The scholars had different fields of research within legal science.
The findings of the thesis explain how social platforms are used for a variety of scholarly activities: visibility and dissemination, information seeking, and establishing relations. Furthermore, these activities were found to be shaped by the values inscribed in the technical functions of the platforms as well as the legal scholars understanding of scholarly communication. The platforms were found to be important to the scholars because they could be used to create visibility for themselves and for their research. However, the commercial interests of the platform companies where found to be at odds with academic values which proscribe free movement of information and open access to scientific results. The study also shows that the distinction between formal and informal scholarly communication is not valid on social platforms. Social platforms have not challenged formal academic publications but have created alternative channels of communication by foregoing the formal process. (Less)
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- author
- Lord, Julia LU and Fredlund, Gustav LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- ABMM54 20191
- year
- 2019
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- library and information science, scholarly communication, science communication, legal scholars, legal science, digital communication technologies, platforms, social media, Facebook, Twitter, Academia.edu, practices, science and technology studies, actor-network theory, José van Dijck, vetenskaplig kommunikation, rättsvetare, rättsvetenskap, digital kommunikation
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- Swedish
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- 8979532
- date added to LUP
- 2019-07-16 09:29:19
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- 2019-07-16 09:29:19
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abstract = {{The purpose of this thesis is to create an increased understanding of how legal scholars use social platforms as a part of their scholarly communication. As a result of the digitalization of society social platforms have become a seemingly ubiquitous part of everyday life, and research shows that scholars are using social platforms as a part of scholarly communication. The starting point for this thesis is that scholarly communication is influenced by a continuous interplay between social and technical aspects.
Our ontological understanding is informed by Science and Technology Studies primarily actor-network theory. This approach makes it possible to understand how human activities are shaped by non-human actors such as technologies, objects and values. These activities are part of what make up practices, such as scholarly communication, and are formed by their socio-technical context. The study draws on six qualitative, semi-structured interviews with legal scholars at two different universities. The scholars had different fields of research within legal science.
The findings of the thesis explain how social platforms are used for a variety of scholarly activities: visibility and dissemination, information seeking, and establishing relations. Furthermore, these activities were found to be shaped by the values inscribed in the technical functions of the platforms as well as the legal scholars understanding of scholarly communication. The platforms were found to be important to the scholars because they could be used to create visibility for themselves and for their research. However, the commercial interests of the platform companies where found to be at odds with academic values which proscribe free movement of information and open access to scientific results. The study also shows that the distinction between formal and informal scholarly communication is not valid on social platforms. Social platforms have not challenged formal academic publications but have created alternative channels of communication by foregoing the formal process.}},
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language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{”Jäklar, vad snabbt det går när man får snurr på det” : rättsvetares förståelse och användning av sociala plattformar för vetenskaplig kommunikation}},
year = {{2019}},
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