Suchman-etal2002
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Suchman-etal2002 |
| Author(s) | Lucy A. Suchman, Jeanette Blomberg, Randall Trigg |
| Title | Working artefacts: Ethnomethods of the prototype |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Information technologies, science and technology studies, ethnomethodological studies of work, accountability, innovation, research and development |
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| Year | 2002 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | British Journal of Sociology |
| Volume | 53 |
| Number | 2 |
| Pages | 163-179 |
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| DOI | 10.1080/00071310220133287 |
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Abstract
This paper follows recent science studies in theorizing information technologies as socio-material con gurations, aligned into more and less durable forms. The study of how new technologies emerge shifts, on this view, from a focus on inven- tion to an interest in ongoing practices of assembly, demonstration, and performance. This view is developed in relation to the case of the ‘prototype’, an explorator y technology designed to effect alignment between the multiple inter- ests and working practices of technology research and development, and sites of technologies-in-use. In so far as it is successful, the prototype works as an exemp- lary artefact that is at once intelligibly familiar to the actors involved, and recog- nizably new.
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