1st Edition
Exploring Contemporary Classification Practices Organizing Information, Technological Change and Ideological Contestation
1. Exploring Classification Practices in Contemporary Culture: An Introduction
Jack Andersen and Joacim Hansson
Part 1: The Use of Technologies in Classification Work: Social and Cultural Implications
2. Classifying Humans in the Age of AI
Karen Louise Grova Søilen
3. The Automation of Genre: Popular Culture, Classification and the Will to Automate
David Beer
4. Classification, Photography, Eugenics: The Colonial Machine in Sápmi
Eivind Røssaak
Part 2: Cultural Heritage and New Materialism
5. The Value of Damaged Goods: Experimenting with New Materialist Classification
Christa Shusko
6. Metadata for Indigenous Collections: the case of Museum of World Culture
Admeire da Silva Santos Sundström
7. The Artist’s Name – On Rhizomatic Structures and a Gendering Divider
Hans Dam Christensen
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
Koraljka Golub
9. Selecting Everything: Digitization as an Act of Classification
Mats Dahlström
10. Representing the Aboutness of Fiction: Three Perspectives Toward Classification and Access to Fictional Content
Olof Falk
11. Boundary Work and the Classification of Scientific Quality in Infrastructures for Performance-Based Research Funding
Nils Pharo and Kim Tallerås
Biography
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.
