HCC: Large: Collaborative Research: Information Technology, Remote Socialization, and the Development of Occupational Identity

HCC：大型：协作研究：信息技术、远程社交和职业认同的发展

• 批准号: 1111237
• 负责人: Diane Bailey
• 金额: $ 45.34万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-01 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1111237&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HCC; Large; Collaborative; Research; Information

This project will explore how remote socialization enabled by information and communication technologies (ICTs) is transforming four occupations: graphic design, automotive engineering, banking, and Internet entrepreneurship. Following a comparative, field-based research design, this research will examine the effects of both organizational environments and socialization tactics on ICT use and consider issues of technology use, socialization, and the changing nature of work. In today's workplaces, it is increasingly common to encounter arrangements in which occupational members are geographically distributed from one another. This new reality calls into question existing theories of socialization and learning practices that highlight the importance of collocated interaction and in situ knowledge transfer. By focusing on how individuals use ICTs to learn what it means to be an occupational member, this research will contribute to a new breed of theory on socialization that indicates the processes, practices, and strategies individuals can use to become effective members of an occupation even though they work remotely from others. By drawing on recent theorizing, which suggests that ICTs may provide particular affordances for interaction that non-mediated (e.g. face-to-face) contexts do not, it will explore the possibility that remote socialization may, in fact, help occupations to transform themselves. One aim is to build theory about the mechanisms by which technology leads to occupational transformation. Occupational skill is critical to economic success, social progress, and individual well-being. However, many occupations seem to be failing to adapt quickly to changes in science, technology, and policy. The failure of occupations to change and refashion themselves to meet new social and technological pressures portends job loss from reduced skill for American citizens, and potentially increased outsourcing to other countries. This study will provide insight into how technology-enabled remote socialization may be able to contribute to faster occupational transformation. Although, for many years, ICT-mediated communication has been seen to be impoverished when compared to face-to-face communication, but now that it has developed considerably, ICT-mediated communication may provide more opportunities for workers to break free from the inertia of established occupations and develop new work practices and strategies that move the occupation forward. Additionally, it is imperative that new occupational members learn how to effectively acquire the knowledge and skills they need to perform their jobs well when they work remotely from others. This study will provide insight into effective practices of remote socialization and occupational learning such that individuals who are attempting to learn new work practices and knowledge will be successful in their efforts.

该项目将探讨信息和通信技术（ICT）如何启用远程社会化，正在转变四个职业：图形设计，汽车工程，银行业和互联网企业家精神。遵循比较，基于现场的研究设计，这项研究将研究组织环境和社会化策略对ICT使用的影响，并考虑技术使用，社会化和工作性质不断变化的问题。 在当今的工作场所中，遇到在地理上分配的职业成员彼此分配的安排越来越普遍。这个新的现实呼吁质疑现有的社会化和学习实践理论，这些理论强调了互动和原位知识转移的重要性。通过关注个人如何使用ICT来了解成为职业成员意味着什么，这项研究将有助于一种新的社会化理论，即使个人可以使用其他人来成为职业的有效成员，即使他们与他人遥不可及。通过利用最近的理论化，这表明ICT可能会为非介导的（例如面对面）环境所没有的互动提供特殊的负担，它将探讨远程社会化实际上可能会帮助职业改变自己的可能性。一个目的是建立有关技术导致职业转型的机制的理论。职业技能对于经济成功，社会进步和个人福祉至关重要。但是，许多职业似乎未能迅速适应科学，技术和政策的变化。职业未能改变和重新塑造自己无法满足新的社会和技术压力，这预示了美国公民技能降低的工作损失，并有可能增加外包到其他国家。这项研究将提供有关支持技术的远程社会化如何能够为更快的职业转型做出贡献的洞察力。尽管多年来，与面对面的交流相比，已经看到ICT介导的沟通被认为是贫穷的，但是既然ICT介导的沟通可能会为工人提供更多的机会，使工人摆脱既定职业的惯性，并开发新的工作实践和策略，以推动职业前进。此外，新职业成员必须学习如何有效地获得他们在他人远程工作时能够很好地完成工作所需的知识和技能。这项研究将洞悉远程社会化和职业学习的有效实践，以便试图学习新的工作实践和知识的个人将在努力中取得成功。