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Sense and Sensibility Sense and Sensibility Affective Labour in Scholarly Collaboration
Sense and Sensibility Sense and Sensibility Affective Labour in Scholarly Collaboration
Stefan Dormans
Smiljana Antonijevic
Sally Wyatt
Stefan Dormans
Smiljana Antonijevic
Sally Wyatt
4S Annual Meeting, TokyoAugust 28, 2010
OutlineOutline
Premise FocusTheme
SourcesSourcesSourcesSources
• Theoretical debates about immaterial and affective labour and knowledge economy (Marx 1861-63; Castells 1996; Hardt and Negri 2000; Terranova 2004; Fraser and Puwar 2008; Gill 2010)
• Ethnographic study on collaboratories in social and economic history (Dormans and Kok 2010)
• Our own collaborative experience in writing this paper (reflections, emails, conversations, drafts)
• Theoretical debates about immaterial and affective labour and knowledge economy (Marx 1861-63; Castells 1996; Hardt and Negri 2000; Terranova 2004; Fraser and Puwar 2008; Gill 2010)
• Ethnographic study on collaboratories in social and economic history (Dormans and Kok 2010)
• Our own collaborative experience in writing this paper (reflections, emails, conversations, drafts)
Affective labourAffective labourAffective labourAffective labour
• Activities that create, sustain, and/or modify behaviour and judgements.
• Can be found in formal and informal interactions between scholars (and other social actors).
• Activities that create, sustain, and/or modify behaviour and judgements.
• Can be found in formal and informal interactions between scholars (and other social actors).
Conceptual framework Conceptual framework Conceptual framework Conceptual framework
• Care work• Articulation work• Persuasion work
• Care work• Articulation work• Persuasion work
• Not intended to be comprehensive or mutually exclusive.
• Heuristic to draw our attention to aspects of scholarly work that often remain invisible or unspoken.
• Not intended to be comprehensive or mutually exclusive.
• Heuristic to draw our attention to aspects of scholarly work that often remain invisible or unspoken.
Care workCare work
Taking care of and being careful with sources, data, texts, colleagues.
• Formal (disciplinary ethical codes, peer review, promotion committees)
• Informal (personal and/or institutional ‘styles of behavior’)
Example: Care of technology
Taking care of and being careful with sources, data, texts, colleagues.
• Formal (disciplinary ethical codes, peer review, promotion committees)
• Informal (personal and/or institutional ‘styles of behavior’)
Example: Care of technology
Articulation workArticulation work
A set of activities required to manage the distributed nature of cooperative work.
• Planned (coordination of work, organisation of meetings)
• Ad hoc (moderating discussions, managing staff turnover, communicating tacit knowledge)
Example: Google calender
A set of activities required to manage the distributed nature of cooperative work.
• Planned (coordination of work, organisation of meetings)
• Ad hoc (moderating discussions, managing staff turnover, communicating tacit knowledge)
Example: Google calender
Persuasion workPersuasion work
Rhetorically, the creation of knowledge is a task beginning with self-persuasion and ending with the persuasion of others (Gross 1990).
• Credibility work (topic and methods)• Reputation work (outputs) • Position work (status)
Example: Increased use of computers
Discussion Discussion Discussion Discussion
• Comments on existing categories?• Non-academic care, articulation, and/or
persuasion work?• Additional examples?• More…
• Comments on existing categories?• Non-academic care, articulation, and/or
persuasion work?• Additional examples?• More…
Stefan Dormans
Smiljana Antonijevic
Sally Wyatt
Stefan Dormans
Smiljana Antonijevic
Sally Wyatt
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