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Jack Andersen
Researcher at University of Copenhagen
Publications - 38
Citations - 676
Jack Andersen is an academic researcher from University of Copenhagen. The author has contributed to research in topics: Knowledge organization & Body of knowledge. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 38 publications receiving 601 citations.
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The public sphere and discursive activities: information literacy as sociopolitical skills
TL;DR: To demonstrate how information‐literacy is to have knowledge about information sources and that searching and using them is determined by an insight into how knowledge is socially organized in society, the paper takes a point of departure in Habermas' theory of the public sphere.
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Documents and the communication of scientific and scholarly information: Revising and updating the UNISIST model
TL;DR: There is a need to bring this model for scientific and technical communication to the focus of information science research as well as to update and revise it.
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Knowledge Organization: A Sociohistorical Analysis and Critique.
Jack Andersen,Laura Skouvig +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the discipline of knowledge organization by harnessing the theories of Michel Foucault and Jurgen Habermas, and provide a sociohistorical analysis and critique of knowledge organisation in order to point out how the discipline understands itself and how it is a de facto human activity.
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Analyzing the role of knowledge organization in scholarly communication: An inquiry into the intellectual foundation of knowledge organization
TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between social organization and knowledge organization is analyzed on two levels: first, in terms of an examination of how communication technologies have shaped forms of social organization, and second, the role of knowledge organization in scholarly communication by means of how indexing reflects and responds to the rhetorical activities of scholarly articles.