Mundane knowledge management and microlevel organizational learning: an ethological approach.
Journal Article
Davenport, E. (2002)
Mundane knowledge management and microlevel organizational learning: an ethological approach. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 53, 1038-1046. doi:10.1002/asi.10110. ISSN 1532-2882
Knowledge management is discussed in the context of articulation work, that is routine interactions in groups of local practice. In such situations, knowledge is largely acqui...
Organizational knowledge and communities of practice
Journal Article
Davenport, E., & Hall, H. (2002)
Organizational knowledge and communities of practice. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 36(1), 170-227. https://doi.org/10.1002/aris.1440360105
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Teaching and learning in the VLCC: actions, reactions and emerging practice in a very large computing centre.
Conference Proceeding
Buckner, K., & Davenport, E. (2001)
Teaching and learning in the VLCC: actions, reactions and emerging practice in a very large computing centre. In S. Bagnara, S. Pozzi, A. Rizzo, & P. Wright (Eds.), 11th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, 355-360
What happens to human computer interaction when the
walls of a physical teaching laboratory are removed?
We present the case of a very large (and new)
computing centre (VLCC) ...
Internet simulations for teaching, learning and research: an investigation of e-commerce interactions and practice in the Virtual Economy.
Journal Article
Horton, K., Davenport, E., Hall, H., & Rosenbaum, H. (2002)
Internet simulations for teaching, learning and research: an investigation of e-commerce interactions and practice in the Virtual Economy. Education for Information, 20(3/4), 237-252
In this paper we report upon the Virtual Economy (VE), an Internet simulation which operated for the first time in Spring 2000 involving students at Indiana University, USA an...
Who dunnit? Metatags and hyperauthorship
Journal Article
Davenport, E., & Cronin, B. (2001)
Who dunnit? Metatags and hyperauthorship. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 52(9), 770-773. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.1123
Multiple authorship is a topic of growing concern in a number of scientific domains. When, as is increasingly common, scholarly articles and clinical reports have scores or ev...
Knowledge management issues for online organisations: ‘communities of practice’ as an exploratory framework
Journal Article
Davenport, E. (2001)
Knowledge management issues for online organisations: ‘communities of practice’ as an exploratory framework. Journal of Documentation, 57(1), (61-75). ISSN 0022-0418
Communities of practice have been identified as sites where knowledge is created in organisations. The author reviews studies of situated learning and situated action and sugg...
E-Rogenous Zones: Positioning Pornography in the Digital Economy
Journal Article
Davenport, B. C. E., Cronin, B., & Davenport, E. (2000)
E-Rogenous Zones: Positioning Pornography in the Digital Economy. Information Society, 17(1), 33-48. doi:10.1080/019722401750067414
Electronic commerce offers immense opportunities to the producers of pornographic products and services. Although this sector generates significant revenues, it is almost invi...
Narratives of new media in Scottish households: the evolution of a framework of enquiry.
Journal Article
Davenport, E., Higgins, M., & Somerville, I. (2000)
Narratives of new media in Scottish households: the evolution of a framework of enquiry. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 51, 900-912. https://doi.org/10.1002/1097-4571%282000%2951%3A103.0.CO%3B2-U
The authors describe a study of the social dynamics of new media in Scottish households. The evolving project drew on dialogues with multiple household members elicited in gro...
Non-contractual trust, design, and human and computer interactions
Conference Proceeding
Marsh, S., Davenport, E., Dibben, M., Friedman, B., March, S., Rosenbaum, H., & Thimbleby, H. (2000)
Non-contractual trust, design, and human and computer interactions. In CHI 2000 Proceedings (239-240). https://doi.org/10.1145/633292.633432
How might trust be a component of human-computer based interaction? There are a number of dimensions involving different combinations of humans, systems and computer agents. R...
Knowledge management; semantic drift or conceptual shift?
Journal Article
Davenport, E., & Cronin, B. (2000)
Knowledge management; semantic drift or conceptual shift?. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 41(4), 294-306. https://doi.org/10.2307/40324047+
This paper offers an exploration of knowledge management (KM), a concept only partially understood in domains that use the term. Three such domains are described: library and ...