Dorte Mad­sen

Present­a­tion

My research revolves around logics of signification in Science Studies examining what empty signifiers are doing in the scientific field, and with a particular focus on disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity.

Selected publications

Madsen, D. 2018 Epistemological or Political? Unpacking Ambiguities in the Field of Interdisciplinarity Studies. Minerva. doi:10.1007/s11024-018-9353-5.

Madsen, D. 2018 Conspicuous by Presence: The Empty Signifier ‘Interdisciplinarity’ and the Representation of Absence. Exploring Silence and Absence in Discourse: Empirical Approaches. In: ed. Melani Schröter and Charlotte Taylor, 359–390. Cham: Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-64580-3_13.

Madsen, D. 2016. Liberating interdisciplinarity from myth. An exploration of the discursive construction of identities in information studies. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 67: 2697–2709. doi:10.1002/asi.23622.

Madsen, D.; Ho, Shuyan Mary. Interdisciplinary Practices in iSchools. iConference Berlin 2014: Breaking down Walls: Culture, Context, Computing. red. / Maxi Kindling; Elke Greifeneder. Urbana-Champaign : iSchools, 2014. s. 1180-1184 (iConference Proceedings, Vol. 2014