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The development of digital publications is making headway due to increasing
data-intensive research activities and may also be noticed in subject areas
like the humanities where this empirical approach is completely new and driven forth by the new technologies. At the same time, the decline of hermeneutical research can be observed. This is closely connected with the role
of documents and texts in scholarly communication. Accordingly, future
publications are likely to turn into objects which might be enhanced by the
integration of different materials like data sets, digitized texts, pictures,
audios, videos etc. The crucial point is the question which format will allow
the aggregation and publication of the very complex findings of data-intensive research.
The paper evaluates the turn to practice in information science, through a summary of the theory and exploration of empirical data about the use of collaborative software. Themes of practice theory, namely: change, sociomateriality,
relational thinking and knowing are summarised and previous use of practice based approaches to studying the adoption of information
technologies are discussed. The empirical data is thirty interviews with Human
Resource professionals involved in a project in a large Mexican University.
The strength of the analysis using the practice based approach is to deepen
our understanding of context emerge from an analysis of the data. The sociology of translation can be used to further deepen understanding of the political process around the project. Remaining issues point to a major issue
with practice based approaches, namely the adequacy of its treatment of
structural power.