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”I don’t know if I can share this.”: Agency and sociomateriality in digital text sharing of business communication
Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för svenska och flerspråkighet.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6873-9408
Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of language studies. Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för svenska och flerspråkighet.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4980-9487
Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för svenska och flerspråkighet.
2021 (English)In: Journal of Digital Social Research (JDSR), E-ISSN 2003-1998, Vol. 3, no 3, p. 1-31Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In modern business organizations, digital practices are enacted daily, often when sharing texts, which is crucial for knowledge management. How professionals experience digital text sharing is an issue that is often overlooked. In this paper, we focus on a relatively new aspect of business digital literacy: the literacy practice of digital text sharing in workplaces. Our analysis was conducted on ethnographic data from business organizations. The results show that sociomaterial aspects are enacted by professionals by discussing 1) the protection of borders of their own and other organizations, and 2) the status and digital location of texts. The analysis highlights two means of expressing agency that indicate conflicting norms: joking and showing strong emotions. The study places the hitherto backgrounded literacy practice of digital text sharing in workplaces in the foreground, proposes methods for studying this phenomenon, and highlights issues concerning digital text sharing that should be addressed by organizations.

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DIGSUM (Centre for Digital Social Research), Umeå University , 2021. Vol. 3, no 3, p. 1-31
Keywords [en]
professional communication, digital literacy, agency
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Languages and Literature
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Scandinavian Languages
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-240339DOI: 10.33621/jdsr.v3i3.78OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-240339DiVA, id: diva2:1970175
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Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation, 2015.0093Forte, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare, 2017-00666Available from: 2025-06-16 Created: 2025-06-16 Last updated: 2025-06-16Bibliographically approved

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