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Showing 1 to 20 of 336 for “"knowledge production"”.
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KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION COMMUNITIES: DESIGN CHOICES AND PLATFORM PERFORMANCE
… of two chapters studying design choices by knowledge production platforms. The first chapter studies the impact of opening a supportive community that provides a different environment on knowledge exchange and user engagement in the main platform. I find evidence that the introduction of a …
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Sonic Knowledge Production in Archaeoacoustics: Echoes of elsewhere?
This thesis is a critical investigation into the production of knowledge in archaeoacoustics. The recently emerged field of acoustic archaeology explores how sound and listening might relate to human behaviour as evidenced in material remains from the past. Pursuing a methodology of sounding …
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The influence of organisational control practices on knowledge production
This study explores the relationship between knowledge creation and organisational and managerial control. I explore how organisational control impacts, influences, shapes, fashions and lay the foundation for the creation of the various types of knowledge within a research organisation. In …
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Orientalism and its Challenges: Feminist Critiques of Orientalist Knowledge Production
… as a set of epistemologies has enabled the co-production of multiple violence and imperial domination. The production of Orientalist knowledge is not only an archive; but rather it is still inscribed and alive in much of the knowledges produced about a notion of the Arab world. Problematic …
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The Role of Collaboration in Knowledge Production and Technology Transfer
… method approach has been utilized to provide knowledge of the context, dynamics, and strategies in the partnership. The study reveals significant collaborations between the corporate and academic sectors, promoted indirectly by the government sector on two fronts: funding initiatives on the …
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Knowledge production at the global frontier : the case of China
… increasingly seen as a participant in the global knowledge economy, with recent studies have highlighted the rising number of scientists and engineers educated in Chinese institutions of higher education, and the growing funding allocated to the production of knowledge. Question remains as to …
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The spatial and institutional factors of knowledge production at MIT
Academic research is increasingly cross-disciplinary and collaborative - around the globe and within institutions. In this context, what is the role and relevance of the campus? I examine the scholarly output and collaboration patterns of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as they pertain to …
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Performing Trans-disciplinarity: Exploring Subjectivity and Objectivity in Knowledge Production
… towards the vast discourse by fellow knowledge producers within the field of Art, Culture, and Technology.
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Mapping Our Return: Glacier Stories and Knowledge Production in Climate Change
… art, stories, and names that reveal emergent knowledges and blur lines of division.
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A study on the effects of peer review in knowledge production
… less is known about its effects in economics knowledge production. Economic decision-makers rely on data from government agencies, private firms, and peer-reviewed and published academic research to formulate well-informed policies and decisions. Therefore, peer review process is at the core …
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Distribution of knowledge production in the chemical sciences in the US
… show that a dilution in intradepartmental knowledge production has occurred both on a geographical and institutional level. Three chemistry departments have emerged as strong producers of high impact articles over the last thirty years: the University of North Carolina, Texas A&M University …
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Assessing the state of procurement knowledge production: implications for the Federal Government
… seeks to understand the realm of purchasing knowledge in order to glean theoretical and practical insights that are useful to academicians and practitioners. The primary goals are to evaluate the extent to which purchasing research relies on theory and to identify and summarize the central …
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Affect & Play: Socio-political Videogames as a Site of Felt-knowledge Production
… game. This dissertation builds on this body of knowledge by bringing together the different understandings of affect and affective capacities to further examine the pedagogical potentials of socio-political games through the creation of a felt-knowledge-producing assemblage. I argue this felt …
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Storied Icebergs: Floating Formations of Decolonial Knowledge Production About the Canadian North
… how, in the context of story(telling), Qallunaat knowledge production about the Canadian North might be decolonised. Inspired by Tiffany Lethabo King’s The Black Shoals (2019), this dissertation uses the iceberg as a critical terrain upon which to both interrogate the coloniality of Qallunaat …
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War on universities? Neoliberalism, intellectual positioning, and knowledge production in the UK
… broadly, to accounts of the relationship between knowledge and the social conditions of its production. It begins with a theoretical exploration of the tension between Bourdieu’s concept of sociological reflexivity and Boltanski’s sociology of critique, including the epistemic and political …
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Southern experiences in dialogue: a case study on South Atlantic knowledge production
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Organizing for knowledge: tales of reification, resilience, and reflexivity in knowledge production management
Contains fulltext : 27446.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Unstable Actors, Alternating Currents: Reimagining Bureaucratic Knowledge Production in the Technopolitics of Development
… and intended beneficiaries. Understanding the production of knowledge and technical expertise within these bureaucracies requires a dynamic, historically contingent, and relational conceptualization of bureaucracy itself. This paper is divided into two parts: Part I critically examines the …
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