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Kallinikos, Jannis, Aaltonen, Aleksi and Marton, Attila (2013) The ambivalent ontology of digital artifacts. MIS Quarterly , 37 (2). pp. 357-370. ISSN 0276-7783.
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Abstract
Digital artifacts are embedded in wider and constantly shifting ecosystems such that they become increasingly editable, interactive, reprogrammable, and distributable. This state of flux and constant transfiguration renders the value and utility of these artifacts contingent on shifting webs of functional relations with other artifacts across specific contexts and organizations. By the same token, it apportions control over the development and use of these artifacts over a range of dispersed stakeholders and makes their management a complex technical and social undertaking. These ideas are illustrated with reference to (1) provenance and authenticity of digital documents within the overall context of archiving and social memory and (2) the content dynamics occasioned by the findability of content mediated by Internet search engines. We conclude that the steady change and transfiguration of digital artifacts signal a shift of epochal dimensions that calls for rethinking some of the inherited wisdom in IS research and practice.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > ZA Information resources | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Information Systems & Management Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Ontologies (Information retrieval), Web search engines, Information storage and retrieval systems | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | MIS Quarterly | ||||
| Publisher: | M.I.S Research Center | ||||
| ISSN: | 0276-7783 | ||||
| Official Date: | 2013 | ||||
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| Volume: | 37 | ||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||
| Number of Pages: | 14 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 357-370 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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