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Sakai-etal2012

2015-01-13T01:07:55Z

ShinichiroSakai:

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Shinichiro Sakai; Norihisa Awamura; Nozomi Ikeya
|Title=The practical management of information in a task management meeting: taking 'practice' seriously
|Tag(s)=Workplace; Ethnography; Meeting talk; Information Science; Ethnomethodology;
|Key=Sakai-etal2012
|Year=2012
|Howpublished=Online journal
|Journal=Information Research
|Volume=17
|Number=4
|URL=http://www.informationr.net/ir/17-4/paper537.html
|Abstract=Introduction. Although researchers have turned their analytical focus to 'practices' in naturally occurring settings, reconsidering the ways in which we approach the information activities undertaken by practitioners is still needed. We argue that we must be able to capture the practical concern that participants experience rather than replace it with theoretical concern. This paper examines the concepts and language that participants (and we researchers) use.
Method. We conducted fieldwork at the workplace of a group of Japanese information technology hardware engineers to understand their practices. Audio and video recordings, as well as field notes and photos, were used as part of the fieldwork.
Analysis. Through explicating the organisation of practical management of information we attempt a detailed understanding of not only what participants do with information or what participants attribute meaning to as information but also how this information is organized in the course of social interaction.
Conclusions. Some distinctive features of practical management of information have emerged from the analysis. First, the information activities of various practical interests are mutually elaborative to one another. Secondly, these information activities are developed in a contingent and ad hoc manner. Finally, they are in line with other work and everyday activities. All of these features point to the embedded nature of information activities within organizational work.
}}

Ikeya-etal2010

2015-01-13T01:07:41Z

ShinichiroSakai:

{{BibEntry
|BibType=INCOLLECTION
|Author(s)=Nozomi Ikeya; Norihisa Awamura; Shinichiro Sakai;
|Title=Why do we need to share information?: Analysis of collaborative task management meetings
|Editor(s)=Jonathan Foster
|Tag(s)=Ethnography; Workplace; Meeting talk; Ethnomethodology; Information Science;
|Key=Ikeya-etal2010
|Publisher=Information Science Reference
|Year=2010
|Chapter=6
|Address=New York
|Booktitle=Collaborative information behavior: User engagement and communication sharing
|Pages=89-108
|DOI=10.4018/978-1-61520-797-8.ch006
|Abstract=In order to study collaborative information behaviour (e.g. information search, creation, and sharing) in the work environment, it is important that we take into consideration its embedded nature in collaborative work, however not many studies have actually taken this into consideration. In conducting fieldwork, we studied group task management in the work of IT product hardware designers. The study shows how understanding the details of information activities embedded in task management allowed us to generate some ideas for transforming task management into a more collaborative activity, and for reembedding task management more thoroughly into their work practices together with the practitioners. The paper discusses how taking an ethnomethodological approach can be fruitful for researchers who want to gain a close understanding of actual collaborative information activities and their embedded nature in work, and how understandings of this kind can be important for developing ideas for transforming practice, both with or without the introduction of technology.
}}

Sakai-etal2014

2015-01-13T01:07:12Z

ShinichiroSakai:

{{BibEntry
|BibType=INCOLLECTION
|Author(s)=Shinichiro Sakai; Ron Korenaga; Yoshifumi Mizukawa; Motoko Igarashi
|Title=Envisioning the plan in interaction: Configuring pipes during a plumbers’ meeting
|Editor(s)=Maurice Nevile; Pentti Haddington; Trine Heinemann; Mirka Rauniomaa
|Tag(s)=Meeting talk; Ethnography; Ethnomethodology; Workplace
|Key=Sakai-etal2014
|Publisher=John Benjamins
|Year=2014
|Address=Amsterdam / Philadelphia
|Booktitle=Interacting with objects: language, materiality, and social activity
|Pages=339 – 356
|Abstract=The central focus of this chapter is the methods of practical reasoning that accomplish a mutual understanding of relevant objects during the organisation and operation of a plumbing design. To execute successfully the task of coor-dinating disparate actions in the work, participants must achieve a shared and collective vision of the particular objects under discussion. We emphasise that for objects to be used as interactional resources, they must first be made recog-nisable and intelligible as interactional accomplishments, though we also suggest that these two analytical issues are inseparable for members when developing a course of practical activity. Objects in our study include tangible artefacts that have physical materiality as well as not-yet-existing abstractions, the designs.
}}

Sakai-etal2015

2015-01-13T01:05:13Z

ShinichiroSakai: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Shinichiro Sakai; Tomomi Shigeyoshi Sakai; Ron Korenaga |Title=Learning to become a better poet: Situated information practices in, of,..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Shinichiro Sakai; Tomomi Shigeyoshi Sakai; Ron Korenaga
|Title=Learning to become a better poet: Situated information practices in, of, and at a Japanese tanka gathering
|Tag(s)=Ethnography; Information Science; Ethnomethodology; Knowledge;
|Key=Sakai-etal2015
|Year=2015
|Howpublished=Online journal
|Journal=Information Research
|Volume=20
|Number=1
|Abstract=Introduction. This paper contributes to the growing body of practice-based and empirical approaches to information science research that examines the ways members of a community engage in mundane and everyday information-related activities. Particular attention to the situated practices from which collective and collaborative learning arises is paid.

Method. Observations at a series of gatherings of a group of Japanese poets were conducted. Audio-visual materials were recorded to repeatedly scrutinize the ‘doings’ of the gathering and information behaviours thereof.

Analysis. An ethnomethodological approach was taken to explicate embodied practices and their seen-but-unnoticed features that members work out to accomplish. In addition to how information is being put to use, what counts as information is addressed.

Findings. A variety of information behaviours occurred simultaneously, sequentially, and orderly to accomplish practical and organizational activities. Information seeking, for example, did not occur in isolation from other information behaviours. Over the course of members’ work, it was interrelated with information sharing and information creation as well as with the use of artefacts that surround the participants.

Conclusion. The findings reveal that information behaviours are organized as the interaction unfolds, which suggests an alternative view to the traditional approaches in information behaviour that constructs theoretical models to predict information behaviour as a goal. Practices that shape, use, and share knowledge that is both tacit and explicit are also identified. For the participants, none of the practices are remarkable. This, in turn, evidences that they assemble the naturally occurring and mundane activities of the gathering in its organizational terms.
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Sakai-etal2014

2015-01-13T00:59:18Z

ShinichiroSakai: ShinichiroSakai moved page Mizukawa-etal2014 to Sakai-etal2014: Incorrect 1st author

{{BibEntry
|BibType=INCOLLECTION
|Author(s)=Shinichiro Sakai; Ron Korenaga; Yoshifumi Mizukawa; Motoko Igarashi
|Title=Envisioning the plan in interaction: Configuring pipes during a plumbers’ meeting
|Editor(s)=Maurice Nevile; Pentti Haddington; Trine Heinemann; Mirka Rauniomaa
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Meeting talk;
|Key=Sakai-etal2014
|Publisher=John Benjamins
|Year=2014
|Address=Amsterdam / Philadelphia
|Booktitle=Interacting with objects: language, materiality, and social activity
|Pages=339 – 356
|Abstract=The central focus of this chapter is the methods of practical reasoning that accomplish a mutual understanding of relevant objects during the organisation and operation of a plumbing design. To execute successfully the task of coor-dinating disparate actions in the work, participants must achieve a shared and collective vision of the particular objects under discussion. We emphasise that for objects to be used as interactional resources, they must first be made recog-nisable and intelligible as interactional accomplishments, though we also suggest that these two analytical issues are inseparable for members when developing a course of practical activity. Objects in our study include tangible artefacts that have physical materiality as well as not-yet-existing abstractions, the designs.
}}

Ikeya-etal2010

2015-01-13T00:56:09Z

ShinichiroSakai: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=INCOLLECTION |Author(s)=Nozomi Ikeya; Norihisa Awamura; Shinichiro Sakai; |Title=Why do we need to share information?: Analysis of collaborative task mana..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=INCOLLECTION
|Author(s)=Nozomi Ikeya; Norihisa Awamura; Shinichiro Sakai;
|Title=Why do we need to share information?: Analysis of collaborative task management meetings
|Editor(s)=Jonathan Foster
|Tag(s)=Ethnography; Workplace; Meeting talk;
|Key=Ikeya-etal2010
|Publisher=Information Science Reference
|Year=2010
|Chapter=6
|Address=New York
|Booktitle=Collaborative information behavior: User engagement and communication sharing
|Pages=89-108
|DOI=10.4018/978-1-61520-797-8.ch006
|Abstract=In order to study collaborative information behaviour (e.g. information search, creation, and sharing) in the work environment, it is important that we take into consideration its embedded nature in collaborative work, however not many studies have actually taken this into consideration. In conducting fieldwork, we studied group task management in the work of IT product hardware designers. The study shows how understanding the details of information activities embedded in task management allowed us to generate some ideas for transforming task management into a more collaborative activity, and for reembedding task management more thoroughly into their work practices together with the practitioners. The paper discusses how taking an ethnomethodological approach can be fruitful for researchers who want to gain a close understanding of actual collaborative information activities and their embedded nature in work, and how understandings of this kind can be important for developing ideas for transforming practice, both with or without the introduction of technology.
}}

Sakai-etal2012

2015-01-13T00:52:12Z

ShinichiroSakai: Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Shinichiro Sakai; Norihisa Awamura; Nozomi Ikeya |Title=The practical management of information in a task management meeting: taking 'pr..."

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Shinichiro Sakai; Norihisa Awamura; Nozomi Ikeya
|Title=The practical management of information in a task management meeting: taking 'practice' seriously
|Tag(s)=Workplace; Ethnography; Meeting talk;
|Key=Sakai-etal2012
|Year=2012
|Howpublished=Online journal
|Journal=Information Research
|Volume=17
|Number=4
|URL=http://www.informationr.net/ir/17-4/paper537.html
|Abstract=Introduction. Although researchers have turned their analytical focus to 'practices' in naturally occurring settings, reconsidering the ways in which we approach the information activities undertaken by practitioners is still needed. We argue that we must be able to capture the practical concern that participants experience rather than replace it with theoretical concern. This paper examines the concepts and language that participants (and we researchers) use.
Method. We conducted fieldwork at the workplace of a group of Japanese information technology hardware engineers to understand their practices. Audio and video recordings, as well as field notes and photos, were used as part of the fieldwork.
Analysis. Through explicating the organisation of practical management of information we attempt a detailed understanding of not only what participants do with information or what participants attribute meaning to as information but also how this information is organized in the course of social interaction.
Conclusions. Some distinctive features of practical management of information have emerged from the analysis. First, the information activities of various practical interests are mutually elaborative to one another. Secondly, these information activities are developed in a contingent and ad hoc manner. Finally, they are in line with other work and everyday activities. All of these features point to the embedded nature of information activities within organizational work.
}}

Sakai-etal2014

2015-01-13T00:44:20Z

ShinichiroSakai:

{{BibEntry
|BibType=INCOLLECTION
|Author(s)=Shinichiro Sakai; Ron Korenaga; Yoshifumi Mizukawa; Motoko Igarashi
|Title=Envisioning the plan in interaction: Configuring pipes during a plumbers’ meeting
|Editor(s)=Maurice Nevile; Pentti Haddington; Trine Heinemann; Mirka Rauniomaa
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Meeting talk;
|Key=Sakai-etal2014
|Publisher=John Benjamins
|Year=2014
|Address=Amsterdam / Philadelphia
|Booktitle=Interacting with objects: language, materiality, and social activity
|Pages=339 – 356
|Abstract=The central focus of this chapter is the methods of practical reasoning that accomplish a mutual understanding of relevant objects during the organisation and operation of a plumbing design. To execute successfully the task of coor-dinating disparate actions in the work, participants must achieve a shared and collective vision of the particular objects under discussion. We emphasise that for objects to be used as interactional resources, they must first be made recog-nisable and intelligible as interactional accomplishments, though we also suggest that these two analytical issues are inseparable for members when developing a course of practical activity. Objects in our study include tangible artefacts that have physical materiality as well as not-yet-existing abstractions, the designs.
}}