Exploring the spatialities of technological and user re-scripting: the case of decision support tools in UK agriculture
Exploring the spatialities of technological and user re-scripting: the case of decision support tools in UK agriculture
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10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.12.006
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2018-02
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3.5
通讯作者：
D. Rose;C. Morris;M. Lobley;M. Winter;W. Sutherland;L. Dicks
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作者：
D. Rose;C. Morris;M. Lobley;M. Winter;W. Sutherland;L. Dicks
在农场使用决策支持工具可能有助于向农民提供循证指导，帮助提高生产力和防止环境退化。虽然许多研究都试图增加决策支持工具在实践中的吸收，主要是通过确定系统设计的理想特性，而很少有工作使用空间透镜来调查它们实际上是如何使用的。使用拉图尔的“脚本”的概念，本文着眼于空间性的技术和用户重新脚本与决策支持工具在农场上的介绍。虽然有一些关于技术如何可能被用户改写的文献，但关于决策支持工具的研究较为有限。此外，虽然有关于技术（而不是决策支持工具）如何改写农业社会的研究，但这些研究通常涉及宏观层面的影响（例如劳动力变化），而不是探索单个农场的生活。因此，本文的重点是探索重新脚本的空间性，调查工具本身是如何共同组成的不同用户在不同的空间，以各种方式，但更特别的是在农场的生活可能会改变的决策工具的引入。决策支持工具在英格兰和威尔士的农场使用的案例研究表明，如果我们希望了解工具和农民之间的接口发生的过程，需要探索空间在个别农场。首先，农民和顾问持有的知识导致阻力，谈判和重新编写的决策支持工具，这被认为是提供“无处不在的观点”。其次，决策支持工具的引入改变了农民的工作流程，影响了他们与农场不同空间互动的方式和时间。在信号需要更多的研究来理论化重新脚本的空间性，我们简要地探讨了我们的工作如何可以告知政策和决策支持工具的发展。
The use of decision support tools on-farm may help to deliver evidence-based guidance to farmers, helping to improve productivity and prevent environmental degradation. While much research has sought to increase the uptake of decision support tools in practice, largely by identifying desirable characteristics of system design, rather little work has used a spatial lens to investigatehowthey are actually used. Using Latour’s notion of ‘the script’, this paper looks at the spatialities of technological and user re-scripting associated with the introduction of decision support tools on-farm. Although there is some literature on how technologies may be re-scripted by users, studies concerning decision support tools are more limited. Furthermore, while there are studies about how technology (not decision support tools) re-scripts agricultural societies, these are generally concerned with macro-level impacts (e.g. labour changes), rather than exploring life on individual farms. This paper, therefore, focuses on exploring the spatialities of re-scripting, investigating how tools themselves are co-constituted in various ways by different users in different spaces, but more particularly on how life on the farm may be changed by the introduction of decision tools. A case study of decision support tool use on farms in England and Wales demonstrates the need to explore spaces on individual farms if we wish to understand processes occurring at the interface between tools and farmers. Firstly, situated knowledge held by farmers and advisers leads to resistance, negotiation, and re-scripting of decision support tools, which are perceived to provide the ‘view from nowhere’. Secondly, the introduction of decision support tools changes the workflows of farmers, affecting how and when they interact with different spaces of their farm. In signalling the need for more research to theorise the spatialities of re-scripting, we briefly explore how our work can inform policy and the development of decision support tools.