Author-constructs & Trojan horse-ing: Academic citation as a strategic discursive practice
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- Conference Proceeding
- Citation:
- Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2011, 48
- Issue Date:
- 2011-12-01
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This paper draws on the findings of a study of 15 international information researchers' relationship with an author work prominent in the literature of their field (Brenda Dervin) to examine academic citation practices in a new light. Drawing on social constructivist theories, derived in part from Foucault's approach to discourse analysis, and a methodology drawing on aspects of Dervin's (1999) Sense-Making and Glaser & Strauss' (1967) inductive analytic techniques, it seeks to examine citation as a strategic discursive practice.
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