Anticipation Work: Cultivating Vision in Collective Practice
Anticipation Work: Cultivating Vision in Collective Practice
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预期工作:在集体实践中培育愿景
DOI:
10.1145/2675133.2675298
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发表时间:
2015
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S. Jackson
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作者:
Stephanie B. Steinhardt;S. Jackson
Problems of temporality in distributed cooperative work have emerged as an important theme of CSCW and HCI work. This paper draws on ethnographic fieldwork into large-scale infrastructure development in ecology and ocean science and analyses of futurism in science and technology studies to call attention to "anticipation work": the practices that cultivate and channel expectations of the future, design pathways into those imaginations, and maintain those visions in the face of a dynamic world. We advance three basic claims: first, that long term technological development and sustainability in science is guided by complex and distributed forms of futurism; second, that all actors (both individual and collective) orient towards the future (at both temporally close and distant scales); and third, that actors engage in complex and skilled forms of anticipation work -- individual and collective, formal and informal -- that guide and shape the present character and experience of collaborative life.