Untangling the Mess of Technological Artifacts: Investigating Community Artifact Ecologies

TY - GEN

T1 - Untangling the Mess of Technological Artifacts: Investigating Community Artifact Ecologies

AU - Bødker, Susanne

AU - Lyle, Peter

AU - Saad-Sulonen, Joanna

N1 - Conference code: 8

PY - 2017/6/26

Y1 - 2017/6/26

N2 - Everyday communities seem to juggle their technology use largely through the contributions and knowledge brought by its members. This contrasts with work settings where there is a greater focus on strategic choices to acquire new technologies and competencies. We focus on how artifact ecologies are shaped in community settings by personal and community relationships, and on the methodological possibilities of understanding these communities for the purpose of design, and making informed technology choices in communities. We applied interview and visual mapping methods, before undertaking a 'remapping' process as part of our data analysis, thus contributing methodologically to the investigation of artifact ecologies at large and community artifact ecologies in particular. Theoretically, we extend the understanding of dynamics in artifact ecologies and highlight the ways these dynamics are shaped by the social interactions taking place, around technological artifacts, in everyday situations.

AB - Everyday communities seem to juggle their technology use largely through the contributions and knowledge brought by its members. This contrasts with work settings where there is a greater focus on strategic choices to acquire new technologies and competencies. We focus on how artifact ecologies are shaped in community settings by personal and community relationships, and on the methodological possibilities of understanding these communities for the purpose of design, and making informed technology choices in communities. We applied interview and visual mapping methods, before undertaking a 'remapping' process as part of our data analysis, thus contributing methodologically to the investigation of artifact ecologies at large and community artifact ecologies in particular. Theoretically, we extend the understanding of dynamics in artifact ecologies and highlight the ways these dynamics are shaped by the social interactions taking place, around technological artifacts, in everyday situations.

KW - Artifact ecologies, collaboration, communities, everyday interaction, mapping methods

KW - Artifact ecologies

KW - Collaboration

KW - Communities

KW - Everyday interaction

KW - Mapping methods

U2 - 10.1145/3083671.3083675

DO - 10.1145/3083671.3083675

M3 - Article in proceedings

SN - 978-1-4503-4854-6

SP - 246

EP - 255

BT - C and T 2017 - 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies, Conference Proceedings

PB - Association for Computing Machinery

CY - New York, NY, USA

T2 - 8th International Conference on Communities & Technologies

Y2 - 26 June 2017 through 30 June 2017

ER -