Information Cosmopolitics

Edin Tabak is an EU Marie Curie Fellow at University of Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Before this, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Internet Studies at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, where he has completed his PhD in 2012. His research interests include actor-network theory, information practices, and digital humanities. He taught social networks in the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts at Curtin University, and has published a textbook Information Behaviour at the University of Zenica, where he has founded courses on Information Behaviour and Digital Humanities.

• 1. Introduction 2. Theory and practice: Jumping between different frames of references 3. Actor-network theory: An alternative approach 4. Setting up the fieldwork 5. The fieldwork 6. Some patterns in participants’ information practices 7. Information cosmopolitics: A model of information practices 8. Propositions instead of conclusions: Yet another invitation to perplexity