The Legacy of Coordinative Practice: How the Mesh of Formal and Informal Articulation Work Through Time Affects a Shipyard in Transition
This article explores the balance, and the shift in balance, between technologies and practices that coordinate work. The empirical data stems from a primarily qualitative study of a Norwegian shipyard in a phase of transition, where new models of ...
Undue Influence or Exploitation — A Qualitative Inquiry into an Ethical Dilemma Around Payment in Crowd Work-Based Research in the U.S.
Ethical issues specific to payment in academic research via crowd work (a.k.a. crowd work-based research) have not been extensively examined or discussed in the prior literature, while similar topics have been debated in biomedical research for ...
Data as Relation: Ontological Trouble in the Data-Driven Public Administration
This paper examines how the intense focus on data in political digitalization strategies takes effect in practice in a Danish municipality. Building on an ethnographic study of data-driven management, the paper argues that one of the effects of ...
Towards Actionable Data Science: Domain Experts as End-Users of Data Science Systems
As a wider range of organizations explore using data science systems, data science research has given growing attention to the role of domain experts. Most of this research still views data science systems as centered on the development of ...
Agency, Power and Confrontation: the Role for Socially Engaged Art in CSCW with Rurban Communities in Support of Inclusion
Rapidly expanding rural communities (often termed ‘rurban’) face complex social challenges around inclusion of newcomers and resulting changes to long-established community identity. Although participatory CSCW provides resources to support rurban ...
Conversational Fluency and Attitudes Towards Robot Pilots in Telepresence Robot-Mediated Interactions
In a controlled lab experiment, we compared how in-person and robot-mediated communicative settings affected attitudes towards communicators and discourse phenomena related to conversational negotiation. We used a mock interview within-...
Using a Service Lens to Better Understand Practices –and Vice Versa
Many studies of practices involve service exchange, and many service researchers have discovered the central role that sociotechnical practices play in service –in particular, within the service-dominant logic school of thought. In this paper, we ...