Abstract
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - Jan 2016 |
| Event | MECCSA Annual Conference 2016 - Canterbury Christchurch University, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom Duration: 4 Jan 2016 → 10 Jul 2019 |
Conference
| Conference | MECCSA Annual Conference 2016 |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| City | Canterbury, Kent |
| Period | 4/01/16 → 10/07/19 |
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Keywords
- ethnography
- lab apps
- media
- Technology
- community
- communication
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Contributing, But Not Belonging : Lab apps and the politics of exclusion from communities of expertise. / Burns, Ryan.
2016. Abstract from MECCSA Annual Conference 2016, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom.Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract
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N2 - The idea of instantly and efficiently sharing data amongst scientists has been promoted by Lab Management Apps (LMAs). These apps promise to recreate an idealisedface-to-facecommunity of interaction,allowing(1) moreefficient communication, and(2) virtual extension ofthe community.Against the background of this idealised image of knowledge sharing, I present ethnographic research that examines how lab members perform careful community management, to maintain the specific image of community defined by the LMA. Lab members allowed non-scientists to contribute to theirresearchnetworkbut not to jointhe imagined/imposed community. I argue thatthe politics of exclusion must be questionedin such cases.Writing an app for an imagined scientific community requires processes of in/exclusion to be codified, which can be disruptive to the community. At the same time, this can be a critically productive process that makes visible inequities that have otherwise been ideologically suppressed.
AB - The idea of instantly and efficiently sharing data amongst scientists has been promoted by Lab Management Apps (LMAs). These apps promise to recreate an idealisedface-to-facecommunity of interaction,allowing(1) moreefficient communication, and(2) virtual extension ofthe community.Against the background of this idealised image of knowledge sharing, I present ethnographic research that examines how lab members perform careful community management, to maintain the specific image of community defined by the LMA. Lab members allowed non-scientists to contribute to theirresearchnetworkbut not to jointhe imagined/imposed community. I argue thatthe politics of exclusion must be questionedin such cases.Writing an app for an imagined scientific community requires processes of in/exclusion to be codified, which can be disruptive to the community. At the same time, this can be a critically productive process that makes visible inequities that have otherwise been ideologically suppressed.
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KW - media
KW - Technology
KW - community
KW - communication
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