Overview
- Introduces the emergent research field of sociomateriality as relevant for design of collaborative technologies
- Offers a unique and multidisciplinary insight into practice studies based upon collaboration between designers and social scientists
- Provides a unique analytical perspective on the design and use of technologies in healthcare practices
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theoretical perspective
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Sociomaterial-Design
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About this book
Investigates theoretically and empirically what it means to design technological artefacts while embracing the large number of practices which practitioners engage with when handling technologies. The authors discusses the fields of design and sociomateriality through their shared interests towards the basic nature of work, collaboration, organization, technology, and human agency, striving to make the debates and concepts originating in each field accessible to each other, and thus moving sociomateriality closer to the practical concerns of design and providing a useful analytical toolbox to information system designers and field researchers alike.
Sociomaterial-Design: Bounding Technologies in Practice takes on the challenge of redefining design practices through insights from the emerging debate on sociomateriality. It does so by bringing forward a comparative examination of two longitudinal ethnographic studies of the practices within two emergency departments – onein Canada and one in the United States of America. A particular focus is placed upon the use of current collaborative artefacts within the emergency departments and the transformation into digital artefacts through design.
Reviews
“In Sociomaterial-Design, Bjørn and Østerlund invoke the sociomaterial designer to illustrate an approach to design-oriented fieldwork that builds on a growing body of CSCW scholarship integrating new materialist theory from feminist technoscience, organization studies and information science … . For those just beginning an ethnographic project, the volume provides some nice scaffolding for an exploration of CSCW domains.” (Daniela Rosner, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Vol. 24, 2015)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sociomaterial-Design
Book Subtitle: Bounding Technologies in Practice
Authors: Pernille Bjørn, Carsten Østerlund
Series Title: Computer Supported Cooperative Work
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12607-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-12606-7Published: 12 December 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38513-6Published: 10 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-12607-4Published: 01 December 2014
Series ISSN: 1431-1496
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 106
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Health Informatics, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Computers and Society, Management of Computing and Information Systems