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Biography

Dr Luke Tredinnick is a Reader in the School of Computing and Digital Media at London Metropolitan University, whose research focuses on the behaviour of data and information within complex computational and socio-technical systems. His work develops theoretically grounded approaches to understanding how information operates within artificial intelligence, organisational data infrastructures, and large-scale digital environments, with particular attention to epistemic integrity, system constraints, and the limits of computability in contemporary AI.

He has published three books and numerous journal articles spanning information theory, computational systems, and digital culture, alongside applied research in data ethics, AI risk, and organisational information architectures. His work bridges formal and applied domains, connecting the theoretical foundations of information and computation with the design, governance, and evaluation of real-world data systems, including the structural limitations these impose on AI technologies.

Luke is Editor of Business Information Review, serves on the editorial board of Journal of Library and Information History (Edinburgh University Press), and is Chair of the Research Ethics Subcommittee (RESC) at London Metropolitan University. He holds a BA in English and American Literature from the University of Kent, an MSc in Information Science from City, University of London, and a PhD on the nature of information from London Metropolitan University.

Publications

1. Theoretical Foundations of Information

• Tredinnick, L. (2025) ‘Theory and metatheory in the nature of information: review and thematic analysis’, Information, 16(9), p. 791.
• Tredinnick, L. (2023) ‘The intricate web: network and rhizome metaphors in hypertext and the web and the epistemic challenge of fake news’, Journal of Documentation, 79(6), pp. 1485–1501.
• Tredinnick, L. (2015) The nature of information: an analysis of the historically situated socio-cultural assumptions concerning the nature of information under changing technological conditions. PhD thesis. London Metropolitan University.
• Tredinnick, L. (2008) Digital information culture: the individual and society in the digital age. Oxford: Chandos Publishing.
• Tredinnick, L. (2007) ‘Post-structuralism, hypertext, and the World Wide Web’, Aslib Proceedings, 59(2), pp. 169–186.
• Tredinnick, L. (2006) Digital information contexts: theoretical approaches to understanding digital information. Oxford: Chandos Publishing.

2. Complexity, Computability, and Epistemic Limits

• Tredinnick, L. and Laybats, C. (2025) ‘Epistemic decay: generative artificial intelligence and the recombination of culture’, Business Information Review, 42(3), pp. 148–151.
• Tredinnick, L. and Laybats, C. (2023) ‘Black-box creativity and generative artificial intelligence’, Business Information Review, 40(3), pp. 98–102.
• Tredinnick, L. (2023) ‘Dangerous data: analytics and information behaviour in the commercial world’, Business Information Review, 40(1), pp. 10–20.
• Tredinnick, L. and Laybats, C. (2020) ‘Applied information ethics’, Business Information Review, 37(1), pp. 6–9.
• Tredinnick, L. (2017) ‘Artificial intelligence and professional roles’, Business Information Review, 34(1), pp. 37–41.
• Tredinnick, L. (2009) ‘Complexity theory and the web’, Journal of Documentation, 65(5), pp. 797–816.

3. Data, Systems and Socio-technical Infrastructures 

• Tredinnick, L. and Laybats, C. (2024) ‘Decarbonising information work’, Business Information Review, 41(1), pp. 6–9.
• Tredinnick, L. and Laybats, C. (2021) ‘Blended workplaces’, Business Information Review, 38(3), pp. 108–110.
• Tredinnick, L. and Laybats, C. (2020) ‘Working in the world of the pandemic’, Business Information Review, 37(3), pp. 97–102
• Tredinnick, L. (2019) ‘Cryptocurrencies and the blockchain’, Business Information Review, 36(1), pp. 39–44
• Tredinnick, L. and Laybats, C. (2017) ‘Information security’, Business Information Review, 33(2), pp. 76–80
• Tredinnick, L. (2014) Why intranets fail (and how to fix them). Oxford: Chandos Publishing.
• Tredinnick, L. (2001) ‘Building an intranet content management strategy’, VINE, 31(3), pp. 20–26.