Disclosing New Worlds 2

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Disclosing New Worlds 2
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Disclosing new worlds

• Organizations and technology Entrepreneurship
• Politics Democratic action
• Culture Cultivation of solidarity
• History making (Changes in the ways we understand
  and deal with ourselves and things)
• Articulation
• Reconfiguration
• Cross-appropriation

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Entrepreneurship

• Changing meaning and practices
• NOT satisfying users needs or a market
• Creating the market together with the product
• Ex Kodak inventing the camera AND photography
• The PC Computer Power to the People
• The composite entrepreneur

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Democratic action

• The Politics of Interpretive Speaking
• Ex Mothers Against Drunk Driving
• Acting as concerned citizens
• Changing meanings and practices
• Not Decision making

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Interpretive speaking

• Articulating an experience that does not fit the
  normal
• Uncovering the grounds of this experience
• Offering some description of the relation of
  these marginal practices to the dominant ones

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Cultivating Solidarity

• Culture We (what makes us us)
• Identity Solidarity
• Ex Martin Luther King

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History making

• What we do when we live our lives at our best
• Involved engagement
• NOT Detached observation/analysis/reflection
• Authentic and in-authentic being
• What does it mean to be a human?
• Not just a consumer ....

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Technology, politics, culture

• Changing Disclosing Spaces
• Web of practices and meanings, identity
  (communities of practice)
• Interrelated set of equipmental (purpose, in
  order to) relations
• NOT objective features or essences
• Ready-to-hand, Breakdown, Present-at-hand,
  Thrownness (Situatedness)
• Present lt- Future lt- Past
• Things show up for us in terms of our familiar
  practices for dealing with them

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Style

• All our pragmatic activity is organized by a
  style.
• Style is .. the way all the practices ultimately
  fit together.
• Style is not an aspect of things, people, or
  activity but constitutes them as what they are.
• Two aspects of disclosive space
• Organization Disclosive space as equipmental
  relations
• Coordination How complex structures are
  interrelated and fit together

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Change and style

• Practices are changed on the basis of the style
  they already have (installed base)
• A style opens a disclosive space by
• Coordinating actions
• Determining how things and people matter
• Being what is transferred from situations to
  situations

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Articulation

• The most familiar
• Two kinds
• Gathering from dispersion (focus on core
  business)
• Retrieval moving what has become marginal to
  the centre

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Reconfiguration

• (Re. ANT Actor configuration)
• Some marginal aspect is becoming central

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Cross-appropriation

• When one disclosive space takes over form another
  a practice that it could not generate on its own
  but that it finds useful

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Examples

• Dot.com
• PC, Internet, Open Source
• SMS
• Mobile broadband/services
• Nokia Connecting People

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Disclosing new II-s?

• Disclosing new worlds installed base
  cultivation?
• Socio-technical, ANT technologies and practices
  are intimately linked
• Bootstrapping users before functions modest
  modifications of what exists rather than
  specifying grand visions/illusions
• Evolutionary approach
• Deliver a better today, rather than promise a
  better tomorrow.