Defense by Morten Krogh Petersen

In order to obtain the PhD degree  

 

Morten Krogh Petersen

 

has submitted his PhD thesis

‘Good’ Outcomes –

 

Handling Multiplicity in Government Communication

 

The thesis examines how Danish government organizations produce and assess communicative solutions in practice, and argues that government communication may be understood as a case of multiplicity. Empirically, the thesis draws upon ethnographic fieldwork conducted at five govern­ment organizations.

In the practices of producing and assessing communicative solutions it is uncertain what consti­tutes a ‘good’ outcome of government communication. This uncertainty is grasped by drawing upon analytical resources from the field of multiplicity-oriented ANT analyses, especially sociolo­gist John Law’s notion of ‘modes of ordering’.

The thesis shows how the different ordering attempts described by the modes of ordering coexist and interfere, and it suggests the notions of ‘sequencing’ and ‘singularizing’ for understanding how the multiplicity of government communication is handled in the production and assessment of communicative solutions.

Time and place

 

Friday 17 June, 2011

15:00 - 17:00

 

Copenhagen Business School

 

Porcelænshaven 26

2000 Frederiksberg

 

Room PH408

Reception

 

After the defense OMS PhD School will host a small reception at ICM, first floor, PH 18A

 

Dissertation

 

The dissertation will be available at Openarchive@cbs.

 

Arranged by

 

Department of Intercultural Communication and Management

 

Supervisors

 

Associate Professor Karl-Heinz Pogner

Copenhagen Business School

 

Associate Professor Tine Damsholt

 

University of Copenhagen

 

Assessment Committee

 

Professor Dan Kärreman (chair)

Copenhagen Business School

 

Professor Steve Woolgar

 

Saïd Business School, Oxford University

 

Senior Lecturer Anni Dugdale

 

University of Canberra, Australia