Perspectives on Knowledge Communication

Auteur

Jan Engberg is Professor of Knowledge Communication at the School of Communication and Culture, Section of German Business Communication, Aarhus University, Denmark. His main research interests are the study of texts and genres in the academic field, cognitive aspects of domain-specific discourse, and the relations between specialized knowledge and text formulation as well as basic aspects of communication in domain-specific settings. His research is focused upon communication, translation, and meaning in the field of law.

Antoinette Fage-Butler is Associate Professor at the Department of English, School of Communication and Culture, where she gained her PhD in Knowledge Communication. Her research interests lie primarily in discursive and cultural aspects of knowledge communication, with particular focus on the communication of risk and trust between authorities and the public. She is currently Principal Investigator of the (Mis)trust of Scientific Expertise research project at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Peter Kastberg is a full professor of organizational communication and the founding director of the Communicating Organizations research group at the Faculty of the Humanities, Aalborg University, Denmark. He is the founder and main organizer of the Dark Side conference series. He holds a BA and an MA degree in International Business Communication as well as a PhD in Applied Linguistics/Technical Communication. Among his current research interests are philosophy of communication, communication theory, as well as critical organizational communication.

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This collection elaborates an innovative analytical framework for knowledge communication, bringing together insights from a range of professional settings to highlight how a cross-disciplinary approach can promote a new view of knowledge that emphasizes constructivist and cognitivist perspectives.

Contenu

List of Contributors

0 Jan Engberg / Antoinette Fage-Butler / Peter Kastberg: Introduction

1 Carmen Heine: Research methods to investigate knowledge types in professional text production

2 Alexander Holste: Knowledge Communication as an Imitation Game: About Conceptual and Empirical Boundaries of Co-Construction in Human-bot Interaction

3 Jan Engberg / Carmen Daniela Maier: The dynamics of knowledge and expertise in social media interactions: Knowledge types, processes of co-constructing knowledge and discursive reactions

4 Mia Thyregod Rasmussen: Communication Network Roles as Knowledge Communicative Positions

5 Ushma Chauhan Jacobsen: Knowledge Asymmetry, and Corvus Corax in Greenland/Denmark: Locating method

6 Peter Kastberg: Modelling Knowledge Communication as Co-Actional Communication

7 Antoinette Fage-Butler: Knowledge communication during the pandemic: Constructing the emergent knowledge of COVID-19 on Danish institutional webpages

8 Helle Dam Jensen / Anja Krogsgaard Vesterager: Students' activation, construction, and use of knowledge

9 Sae Oshima: Knowledge Work of Professional Clients

10 Christiane Zehrer: Knowledge Communication in Interdisciplinary Settings: Ontological Solutions and Conceptual Challenges

11 Klarissa Lueg / Jens Rennstam: How knowledge moves across social fields: a conceptual illustration of the antenarrative field of economic degrowth thinking

12 Patrizia Anesa: Language and Law in the Post-disciplinary Landscape: A Knowledge Communication Perspective