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Ursula Plesner

Assistant professor , PhD
Ursula Plesner

Department of Organization

Kilen, Kilevej 14A, K4.50
2000 Frederiksberg
Tel.: +45 3815 2810
Cell phone: +45 2225 1750
Fax:+45 3815 2828
E-mail: up.ioa@cbs.dk



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My research looks at how different kinds of actors communicate knowledge, innovation and expertise. More specifically, I look into how different occupational groups develop and negotiate knowledge – and how they succeed in creating common understanding, stable relations and concrete products (such as texts, models, or technologies). Or how all this goes wrong. Theoretically, I am interested in exploring how communication and organization can be seen as network activities which do not only include humans, but also technologies, symbols, values, and numerous other types of elements. I have an interdisciplinary training in sociology, communication and media studies, and this combination informs my empirical research.

Primary research areas

  • The production and communication of knowledge and innovations
  • Innovation processes around emergent ICTs
  • New media, media technologies and the role of new ICT the organization of work and work relations
  • Architects’ use of new ICTs (virtual worlds and game engine technologies)
  • Science and Technology Studies, communication theory, discourse theory
  • Organizational communication, organizational studies


Selected publications

Forthcoming: Researching Virtual Worlds: Methodologies for Studying Emergent Practices, Routledge
Forthcoming: ‘Building networks with vague intentions: A vocabulary of enrolment and negotiations in collaborative research practice’ in Knowledge and Power in Collaborative Research: A Reflexive Approach, (eds. Louise Phillips et al), Routledge
Forthcoming: ‘When citizens matter in the mass mediation of science: The role of imagined audiences in multidirectional communication processes’ in Citizen Voices: Performing Public Participation in Science and Environment Communication, (eds.) Louise Phillips, Anabela Carvalho, and Julie Doyle, Intellect Publishers
2012: ‘Selling the Selling Point: How Innovation Communication creates Users of Virtual Worlds Architecture’ in Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 18(1) [with Maja Horst]
2011: ‘Imagining Technicities: ICT Taste and Skill as Elements in the Configuration of Virtual Worlds Architecture’ in International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society 9(2) [with Bjarke Liboriussen]
2011: Studying Sideways - displacing the problem of power in research interviews with sociologists and journalists. Qualitative Inquiry 17(6)
2011: The Performativity of 'Media Logic' in the Mass Mediation of Science. Public Understanding of Science (online first)
2009: An Actor-Network Perspective on Changing Work Practices: Communication technologies as actants in newswork. Journalism - Theory, Practice & Criticism, 10(5).
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