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Personalization of knowledge, personal knowledge ecology, and digital nomadism

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  • Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi
  • Gabriela Philips
  • Will Sutherland
  • Steve Sawyer
  • Ingrid Erickson

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We examine the concept of personal knowledge management using data drawn from our study of digital nomads. We make two contributions: an empirical and conceptual development of knowledge management as it relates to independent workers and an advancement of social informatics that builds on Gibson's ecological perspective. Digital nomads provide an empirical basis to better understand how knowledge management is shifting from organization‐centric, with its concomitant emphasis on organizational information systems, to worker‐centric, which relies on personal knowledge ecologies. We advance this concept as a combination of personal knowledge management activities and the digital technologies that support them. Our data make clear that individuals are the locus of personal knowledge ecologies, but these ecologies are embedded in a larger community of collaborators, clients, and peers who are often extensively mediated by digital technologies. This embedding and mediation are at the core of the sociotechnical arrangements that define the personal knowledge ecologies that we document.

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  • Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi & Gabriela Philips & Will Sutherland & Steve Sawyer & Ingrid Erickson, 2019. "Personalization of knowledge, personal knowledge ecology, and digital nomadism," Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 70(4), pages 313-324, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jinfst:v:70:y:2019:i:4:p:313-324
    DOI: 10.1002/asi.24134
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    1. Dave Cook, 2020. "The freedom trap: digital nomads and the use of disciplining practices to manage work/leisure boundaries," Information Technology & Tourism, Springer, vol. 22(3), pages 355-390, September.
    2. Chirag Shah & Theresa Anderson & Loni Hagen & Yin Zhang, 2021. "An iSchool approach to data science: Human‐centered, socially responsible, and context‐driven," Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 72(6), pages 793-796, June.
    3. Bednorz, Jan, 2024. "Working from anywhere? Work from here! Approaches to attract digital nomads," Annals of Tourism Research, Elsevier, vol. 105(C).
    4. Jarrahi, Mohammad Hossein & Askay, David & Eshraghi, Ali & Smith, Preston, 2023. "Artificial intelligence and knowledge management: A partnership between human and AI," Business Horizons, Elsevier, vol. 66(1), pages 87-99.

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