teknologiateksteet

teknologiateksteet is a term used in scholarly discussions to describe the study and production of technology-related texts. It encompasses the collection, description, digitization, and analysis of written materials that document, explain, or debate technological artifacts, practices, and standards. Although not universally standardized, the term is employed to frame interdisciplinary work at the intersection of technology studies, digital humanities, and information science.

Etymology and scope are varied: the word blends roots related to technology (teknologia) with notions of textuality (teksteet or texts), and is often used in Nordic or European scholarly contexts. It signals an approach that treats technology as embedded in language and, conversely, treats texts as carriers of technical knowledge. The scope includes technical documentation, manuals, API references, standards, historical manuals, software licenses, user guides, and online discussions about technology.

Methods and practices within teknologiateksteet combine traditional text scholarship with computational techniques. Researchers may use digitization and optical character recognition, markup and encoding standards (such as TEI), corpus linguistics, topic modeling, discourse analysis, and critical historiography. Preservation, accessibility, and metadata curation are common concerns, as is studying how technical knowledge circulates across communities and over time.

Applications include improving digital preservation of technical literature, informing design of technical communication, enabling multilingual or cross-platform documentation, and supporting sociotechnical research into how technology is explained, adopted, and contested.

See also: digital humanities, information science, science and technology studies, technical communication.