scholarly journals "Second Life" Librarianship and the Gendered Work of Care in Technology

PhaenEx ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scout Calvert
Keyword(s):  
Customer Service ◽  
Emotional Labor ◽  
Second Life ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Technological Practice

This paper examines the basis for the commonly expressed sentiment that librarians have been late to adopt emerging technologies for use in library and information science practice. Using insights from science and technology studies, this sentiment is shown to be inadequately empirically warranted. The trope of the technophobic librarian is examined for clues to the importance of gendered emotional labor in effective library work, under the rubric of “customer service.” These clues lead to an examination of embodiment in the virtual world Second Life, and the emerging presence of librarians there. Using Second Life librarianship as a case study, this paper argues that embodiment is an important resource for library work, and that women’s technological labor is effaced through the trope of the technophobic librarian. Deconstructive analytical moves which collapse binary categories, yoked with methods from science and technology studies, are suggested for future fine-grained accounts of library technological practice.

scholarly journals The Post-Program Era: The Rise of Internet & Society Centers—and a New Interdiscipline

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jefferson Pooley
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Brick And Mortar ◽  
Disciplinary Field ◽  
Traditional Discipline ◽  
The University

There’s a new academic meta-field, centered on digital life, that doesn’t look anything like a traditional discipline. The field is more like an estuary, fed by a number of existing disciplines—library and information science, law, sociology, science and technology studies, and communication. It’s an interdisciplinary mashup of fields whose domains (“media”, “information,” “technology”) have merged. What makes the new, nameless formation interesting is its place in the university: the new field is seeded by institutes that—crucially—exist outside the established department system. It is a resolutely cross-disciplinary field, whose brick-and-mortar centers, like Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, are designed for idea exchange. The academics who populate the field, they reside in established departments and schools; it’s when they have thinking to share that they travel to Cambridge or to one of the other institutes.

RESEARCH COLLABORATION AMONG LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE SCHOOLS IN SOUTH AFRICA (1991–2012): AN INFORMETRICS STUDY

Mousaion ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 36-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan R. Maluleka ◽  
Omwoyo B. Onyancha
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Limited Extent ◽  
Microsoft Excel ◽  
The Past ◽  
Software Packages ◽  
Collaborative Activities

This study sought to assess the extent of research collaboration in Library and Information Science (LIS) schools in South Africa between 1991 and 2012. Informetric research techniques were used to obtain relevant data for the study. The data was extracted from two EBSCO-hosted databases, namely, Library and Information Science Source (LISS) and Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA). The search was limited to scholarly peer reviewed articles published between 1991 and 2012. The data was analysed using Microsoft Excel ©2010 and UCINET for Windows ©2002 software packages. The findings revealed that research collaboration in LIS schools in South Africa has increased over the past two decades and mainly occurred between colleagues from the same department and institution; there were also collaborative activities at other levels, such as inter-institutional and inter-country, although to a limited extent; differences were noticeable when ranking authors according to different computations of their collaborative contributions; and educator-practitioner collaboration was rare. Several conclusions and recommendations based on the findings are offered in the article.

scholarly journals Trois regards sur la notion de « culture chinoise »

2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-116
Author(s):  
Basile Zimmermann
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
Interactional Expertise ◽  
General Argument ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
Chinese Studies

Abstract Chinese studies are going through a period of reforms. This article appraises what could constitute the theoretical and methodological foundations of contemporary sinology today. The author suggests an approach of “Chinese culture” by drawing from recent frameworks of Science and Technology Studies (STS). The paper starts with current debates in Asian studies, followed by a historical overview of the concept of culture in anthropology. Then, two short case studies are presented with regard to two different STS approaches: studies of expertise and experience and the notion of interactional expertise, and the framework of waves and forms. A general argument is thereby sketched which suggests how “Chinese culture” can be understood from the perspective of materiality.

Queere Praktiken der Reproduktion

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Charlotte Dionisius
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Feminist Science ◽  
Technology Studies

Ein, zwei, drei oder vier Elternteile, »Sponkel«, »Mapas« und lesbische Zeugungsakte - wer oder was Familie ist und wie sie gegründet wird, hat sich vervielfältigt. Sarah Charlotte Dionisius rekonstruiert aus einer von den Feminist Science and Technology Studies inspirierten, queertheoretischen Perspektive, wie lesbische und queere Frauen*paare, die mittels Samenspende Eltern geworden sind, Familie, Verwandtschaft und Geschlecht imaginieren und praktizieren. Damit wirft sie einen heteronormativitätskritischen Blick auf die sozialwissenschaftliche Familienforschung sowie auf gesellschaftliche und rechtliche Entwicklungen, die neue Ein- und Ausschlüsse queerer familialer Lebensweisen mit sich bringen.

Corpi in interazione in ambienti di lavoro tecnologicamente densi

2012 ◽  
pp. 64-74
Author(s):  
Francesca Alby
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Embodied Interaction ◽  
Workplace Studies ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
Nello Studio

Nello studio dell'interazione sociale e delle dinamiche organizzative, il corpo ha storicamente ricevuto un'attenzione marginale rispetto a quella data al discorso. Anche per questo, motivo e in linea con tendenze piů recenti, questo articolo prende in esame soprattutto il contributo dei movimenti corporei allo sviluppo dell'azione sociale e organizzativa. In particolare, verrŕ analizzato empiricamente in che modo la postura e il posizionamento corporeo possano essere utili risorse nel lavoro di gruppo, e, piů in generale, nel mantenimento di un'azione collettiva rapida e coordinata. Il lavoro ha diversi riferimenti teorici che vengono delineati nella prate introduttiva e utilizzati nell'analisi dei dati. In primo luogo un recente volume edito da Streeck, Goodwin e LeBaron (2011), che sistematizza e raccoglie i risultati di una linea di ricerca sviluppatasi gradualmente nelle quattro decadi passate e che gli autori chiamano embodied interaction. In secondo luogo, il riferimento č al contributo di due programmi di ricerca interdisciplinari, parzialmente sovrapposti: gli studi sul lavoro e sulle pratiche lavorative mediate da tecnologie (studi di ergonomia sociale: Mantovani, 2000; workplace studies: Luff, Hindmarsh e Heath, 2000 e in italiano: Zucchermaglio e Alby, 2005; Parolin, 2008; practice-based studies: Bruni e Gherardi, 2007), e gli studi sulla scienza e sulla tecnologia (science and technology studies ad esempio: Lynch e Woolgar, 1988 e, in italiano: Viteritti, 2011). L'analisi si basa su videoregistrazioni del lavoro di web designer all'interno di un'azienda con sede a Roma, azienda che si occupa di sviluppare e mantenere un portale internet. I risultati discussi nell'analisi empirica riguardano in particolare: a) come entrare e uscire dal gruppo: vengono analizzati alcuni dei meccanismi di coordinamento corporeo che rendono fluido l'ingresso e l'uscita dai gruppi di lavoro; b) come costruire il ritmo dell'interazione: i dati illustrano come in questo tipo di ambienti ad alta densitŕ tecnologica agenti umani e non umani interagiscano (nelle modalitŕ che vengono descritte) nel costruire il ritmo dell'interazione e dell'azione; c) come animare rappresentazioni statiche: viene mostrato come i web designer usino il loro corpo per animare rappresentazioni statiche dei siti internet che devono progettare rendendo visibili e condivisi processi di immaginazione congiunta assolutamente centrali per l'attivitŕ lavorativa in corso.

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