The Organizational Blog as a Boundary Object

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Annette Agerdal-Hjermind
Keyword(s):  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Boundary Object ◽  
Narrative Tradition ◽  
Shared Narrative ◽  
Conflicting Goals ◽  
The Way

This article looks at organizational blogger roles and how they both reflect and affect the way knowledge is communicated across department boundaries in a corporate blogging context. The blog is approached from a sociotechnical perspective, addressing and looking into the various roles in a community of practice and the enactment of the bloggers in a transparent context. Empirical examples of discourses at work in an organizational blog are highlighted, and the diverging roles and dilemmas of the blogging employees are discussed. People within the same organization have different goals in relation to the same technology, and the content of the blog and the blog comments are managed differently by the internal bloggers which feel empowered or disempowered. The article pinpoints roles of enactment in a socio-technical perspective through pointing out conflicting goals, roles and the resulting counter discourses and shows examples of how the group of bloggers with the shared narrative tradition is able to mobilize its members and create subgroups for appropriate blog behaviors and changing behavior.

What Is Hidden in the Small Box? Narratives of Late Antique Roman Palestine in Dialogue

AJS Review ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-94
Author(s):  
Reuven Kiperwasser
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Narrative Tradition ◽  
Judaic Studies ◽  
Roman Palestine ◽  
The Church ◽  
Shared Narrative

This study is a comparative reading of two distinct narrative traditions with remarkably similar features of plot and content. The first tradition is from the Palestinian midrash Kohelet Rabbah, datable to the fifth to sixth centuries. The second is from John Moschos's Spiritual Meadow (Pratum spirituale), which is very close to Kohelet Rabbah in time and place. Although quite similar, the two narratives differ in certain respects. Pioneers of modern Judaic studies such as Samuel Krauss and Louis Ginzberg had been interested in the question of the relationships between early Christian authors and the rabbis; however, the relationships between John Moschos and Palestinian rabbinic writings have never been systematically treated (aside from one enlightening study by Hillel Newman). Here, in this case study, I ask comparative questions: Did Kohelet Rabbah borrow the tradition from Christian lore; or was the church author impressed by the teachings of Kohelet Rabbah? Alternatively, perhaps, might both have learned the shared story from a common continuum of local narrative tradition? Beyond these questions about literary dependence, I seek to understand the shared narrative in its cultural context.

Cultivating a Community of Practice Between Business and IT

2011 ◽  
pp. 24-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie A. Martin ◽  
Tally Hatzakis ◽  
Mark Lycett
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Organizational Effectiveness ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Relationship Management ◽  
Boundary Object ◽  
Working Relationships ◽  
Maturity Model ◽  
Business Function

There is a perceived gap between the Information Technology (IT) and the Business function in many organizations, which can lead to poor working relationships and a loss of organizational effectiveness. In this chapter, we discuss an effort to bridge this gap through a program of Relationship Management (RM). The approach is based on the concept of cultivating a Community of Practice (CoP) and relies on facilitating relationships between people in order to share and leverage knowledge. This chapter describes a case study of a large financial services company and shows how the boundaries between Business and IT were spanned through a Relationship Management Community of Practice (RM CoP). The outcomes of the work are embodied in a maturity model that provides a framework for practice and acts as a ‘boundary object’ enabling the gap to be bridged. The chapter illustrates how cultivating a CoP between Business and IT can be a holistic way to manage the dynamics of knowledge sharing in organizations.

Between dialect and standard

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 178-199
Author(s):  
Isabel Molina Martos
Keyword(s):  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Social Complexity ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
Migrant Population ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economic Parameters ◽  
Castilian Spanish ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

Abstract This paper offers a sociolinguistic analysis of the consonants (s) and (d) in the coda position in the city of Madrid, within the framework of the Project for the Sociolinguistic Study of Spanish from Spain and America (PRESEEA). The purpose is to illustrate how varieties of southern Castilian Spanish and those from the central and northern Peninsula converge and diverge, taking into consideration the social, political, and economic parameters that affect said processes. The diversity of patterns that coexist in the Madrid speech community reflects the city’s historic social complexity, the varied geographical origins of its migrant population, the interests that motivate each community of practice, as well as other circumstances that influence the direction of change. The analysis of (s) and (d) in coda illustrates the way in which the dynamics of variation and change in Madrid fluctuate between two poles: standardization and regionalization, the same two axes around which the community’s sociolinguistic patterns revolve.

A Template for Design Personas

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lene Nielsen ◽  
Kira Storgaard Hansen ◽  
Jan Stage ◽  
Jane Billestrup
Keyword(s):  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Focus Of Attention ◽  
Related Information ◽  
The Way

The persona method is gaining widespread use and support. Many researchers have reported from single cases and from novel domains on how they have used the method. However, the way companies and design groups describe personas has not been the focus of attention. This paper analyses 47 descriptions from 13 companies and compares these to an analysis of recommendations from 11 templates from literature. Furthermore, 28 interviews with Danish practitioners with experience in using personas are analyzed for content on persona descriptions. The study finds that a Danish persona style has developed that is different from the recommendations in the lack of marketing and business related information and the absence of goals as differentiator for personas. Furthermore, the inspiration and knowledge on personas originates from co-workers and seminars and not much from literature. This indicates that the community of practice influences the persona style.

Insight

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Lopez-Real
Keyword(s):  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Creative Performance ◽  
Artistic Voice ◽  
The Way

Carlos Lopez-Real explores his own ‘pathway to creative performance’ in holistic terms, considering issues to do with identity, ‘constantly evolving practice’, shifts of focus in his artistic journey, and various types of uncertainty along the way. In particular, he contemplates his various roles and activities as improviser, composer, performer and educator, along with his individual artistic voice and a further artistic voice embedded within a collective of musicians, a community of practice.

scholarly journals Expressive Cartography, Boundary Objects and the Aesthetics of Public Visualization

Leonardo ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (5) ◽  
pp. 509-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricio Dávila ◽  
Dave Colangelo ◽  
Maggie Chan ◽  
Robert Tu
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Objects ◽  
Boundary Object ◽  
Multiple Modalities ◽  
Object A ◽  
Community Stakeholders ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Way

Aesthetic visualization projects that incorporate users, community stakeholders, multiple modalities and technologies emphasize the way that an artistic visualization can be both an artifact and a process—a conceptualization of aesthetic visualization that is useful for thinking about visualization in general. In this article, the authors propose the concept of the visualization as boundary object, a move away from the indexical claims of visualization and instead toward an acknowledgment of the entangled nature of social, political, economic, cultural, technological and environmental actants. Through a description of the In the Air, Tonight public visualization project, the authors suggest that by making manifest the connections between these actants, a visualization project, as a form of expressive cartography, can contribute to the visibility of and engagement with important issues (e.g. homelessness) that affect society.

Play the Way You Feel

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
English Language ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
Musical Comedy ◽  
Narrative Tradition ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
Jazz Music ◽  
Historical Films ◽  
Tv Shows ◽  
The Way

This book—both a narrative and a film directory—surveys and analyzes English-language feature films (and a few shorts and TV shows/movies) made between 1927 and 2019 that tell stories about jazz music, its musicians, its history and culture. Play the Way You Feel looks at jazz movies as a narrative tradition with recurring plot points and story tropes, whose roots and development are traced. It also demonstrates how jazz stories cut across diverse genres—biopic, romance, musical, comedy and science fiction, horror, crime and comeback stories, “race movies” and modernized Shakespeare—even as they constitute a genre of their own. The book is also a directory/checklist of such films, 67 of them with extensive credits, plus dozens more shorter/capsule discussions. Where jazz films are based on literary sources, they are examined, and the nature of their adaptation explored: what gets retained, removed, or invented? What do historical films get right and wrong? How does a film’s music, and the style of the filmmaking itself, reinforce or undercut the story?

scholarly journals The Power and Promulgation of the Claimed Links between Human and Animal Abuse

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-355
Author(s):  
Heather Piper ◽  
Debbie Cordingley
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Symbolic Analysis ◽  
Animal Abuse ◽  
The Past ◽  
Moral Power ◽  
And Training ◽  
The Way

In this article the authors identify and discuss what they consider to be some of the underlying arguments and approaches currently promulgated in teaching and training in relation to abuse. Their focus is the assumption that all violence is linked, especially the belief that those who harm animals will harm people. This under-theorised but overtly applied phenomenon, referred to as ‘the links’, is increasingly evident on both sides of the Atlantic where it is supported and promoted by powerful non-governmental organisations. The authors draw attention to current teaching (and practice) in this area, which they consider to be flawed as well as unethical and unjust. They critique both the cycles of abuse models of the past and more recent manifestations - for example, retrospective constructions of profiles of ‘abusers’, dubious professional practice, and infringements of human rights purportedly supported by ‘science’. While their argument is initially theoretical, they draw on a focused study of a conference they both attended, which provided the opportunity for a limited linguistic and symbolic analysis. This illustrates the way in which the links idea is spread, supported by the institutional and moral power of significant agencies and organisations that are arguably operating as a ‘community of practice’.

scholarly journals Creating numbers: carbon and capital investment

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 302-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gillian Maree Vesty ◽  
Abby Telgenkamp ◽  
Philip J Roscoe
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Carbon Number ◽  
Boundary Object ◽  
Accounting System ◽  
Water Utility ◽  
Australian Water ◽  
Content Type ◽  
System Designs ◽  
The Way

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to seek to illustrate the way in which carbon emissions are given calculative agency. The authors contribute to sociology of quantification with a specific focus on the performativity of the carbon number as it was introduced to the organization’s capital investment accounts. In following an intangible gas to a physical amount and then to a dollar value, the authors used categories from the sociology of quantification (Espeland and Stevens, 2008) to explore the persuasive attributes of the newly created number and the way it changed the work of actors, including the way they reacted and viewed authority. Design/methodology/approach – An empirical case study in a large Australian water utility drawing on insights from the sociology of calculation. Findings – The authors present empirics on the calculative appeal of the carbon emissions number, how it came into being and its performative (or reactive) effects. The number disciplined behaviour and acted like a boundary object, while at the same time, enroled allies through its aesthetic appeal in management accounting system designs. In framing the empirics, the authors were able to highlight how the carbon number became a visible actor in the newly emergent and evolving carbon market. Practical implications – This paper provides an empirical framing that continues the project of writing the sociology of calculation into accounting. Originality/value – This study contributes to the sociology of quantification in accounting with an empirical framing device to reveal the representational work of a number and how it expands as it becomes implicated in broader networks of calculation.

Communities of Practice for Organizational Learning

2011 ◽  
pp. 74-76
Author(s):  
Andrew Wenn
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Local Level ◽  
The Way

The term community of practice (CoP) arises out of the work of Lave and Wenger (1991) and Wenger (1998) and refers to the way groups of individuals interact and engage in “the sustained pursuit of a shared enterprise” (Wenger, 1998, p. 45). It is the activities of the members of these groups both individually and collectively, the construction of and practices at a local level that allows them “to meet the demands of the institution” (Wenger, 1998, p. 46) which they work for. For the CoP, learning occurs as a form of social practice.

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