TY  - CHAP
AB  - Purpose This chapter offers a re-description of knowledge organization in light of genre and activity theory. Knowledge organization needs a new description in order to account for those activities and practices constituting and causing concrete knowledge organization activity. Genre and activity theory is put forward as a framework for situating such a re-description.Findings By means of genre and activity theory, the chapters argues that understanding the genre and activity systems, in which every form of knowledge organization is embedded, makes us capable of seeing how knowledge organization, as a genre, both can be a tool and an object in genred human activities.Originality/value In contrast to much research into knowledge organization, this chapter does not emphasize techniques, standards, or rules to be the sole object of study. Instead, an emphasis is put on the genre and activity systems informing and shaping concrete forms of knowledge organization activity. With this, we are able to understand how knowledge organization activity also contributes to construct genre and activity systems and not only aid them.
VL  - 11
SN  - 978-1-78441-255-5, 978-1-78441-254-8/2055-5377
DO  - 10.1108/S2055-537720140000011003
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S2055-537720140000011003
AU  - Andersen Jack
PY  - 2015
Y1  - 2015/01/01
TI  - Re-Describing Knowledge Organization — A Genre and Activity-Based View
T2  - Genre Theory in Information Studies
T3  - Studies in Information
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 13
EP  - 42
Y2  - 2024/04/26
ER  -