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Straddling, Betting and Passing:The configuration of user involvement in cross-sectorial innovation projects
No full textExperimenting with Commodities and Gifts: The Case of an Office Hotel
No full textThe article explores four different images of the relationship between market economy and gift economy drawn from economic sociology and anthropology. Second, it presents a case study of an office hotel, which experimented with the relationship between markets and gifting by urging the companies it hosted to share knowledge and commercial contacts. Drawing on Callon's notions of framing and overflowing, the article shows how various interactions ('overflows') either displaced, supported or reinvigorated the boundaries between market and gifting at the office hotel. It notes that these overflows characteristically involved the sharing of access to interactional spaces and information about interaction partners. Finally, it suggests that a particular form of politics of exchange comes into view in the empirical case. This politics centres on the discovery of pragmatic and relatively benign forms of parasitism between modes of exchange
Future and furniture - A study of a new economy firm's powers of persuasion
No full textThis article explores the differences between two strategies of persuasion. The first strategy, called drawing things together, is Actor-Network Theory's classic analysis of how modern science has gained tremendous persuasive powers through systematic inscription and centralized accumulation of information traces. The second strategy, called drawing contrasts together, is derived from the author's empirical analysis of the rhetorics and materialities of a Scandinavian New Economy firm. The persuasive powers of this firm, it is argued, are based on its ability to evoke and articulate a series of pointed contrasts between the attractive working life within the firm and the ordinary and problematic work life elsewhere. The article argues that both persuasive strategies work in a pragmatic sense. But where "drawing things together" enacts a relatively stable and knowable world, the persuasive strategy of "drawing contrasts together" depends on, and enacts, a world of dramatic epochal changes
Presenciando el futuro
No full textDieser Aufsatz geht dem Phänomen des Erlebens der Zukunft anhand einer Fallstudie nach, in der ein skandinavisches New-Economy-Unternehmen eine Reihe von Wirtschaftsjournalisten davon überzeugte, es verkörpere "die Zukunft". Hierzu werden die Verfahrensweisen und rhetorischen Strategien beschrieben, die die Manager anwendeten, um die Journalisten in "Zeugen" zu verwandeln. Die Strategien des Managements werden mit anderen Fällen von Zeugenschaft in der Wissenschaft und im Gerichtssaal in Beziehung gesetzt. Der Aufsatz argumentiert, dass die Überzeugungskraft des Managements sich aus seiner Fähigkeit herleitet, eine Reihe von scharfen Kontrasten zwischen dem attraktiven Arbeitsleben innerhalb und dem problematischen Arbeitsleben außerhalb des Unternehmens herauszustellen. Schließlich wird herausgearbeitet, dass die Strategie des Managements eine Zeit-Welt aufruft, die von dramatischen epochalen Brüchen geprägt ist und sich radikal von der stabileren und erfassbareren Zeit-Welt unterscheidet, wie sie in normalen wissenschaftlichen Diskursen inszeniert wird.
URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs070119The paper explores the phenomenon of witnessing the future through a case study of how a Scandinavian new economy firm managed to persuade a number of business journalists that it was "the future". It describes the procedures and rhetorical strategies that the manager deployed to turn the journalists into witnesses. It compares the manager's strategy to other cases of effective witnessing in courtrooms and in science. It concludes that the manager's persuasiveness is derived from his ability to articulate a series of pointed contrasts between the attractive working life within the firm and the problematic work life elsewhere. Finally, it notes that the manager's strategy enacts a time-world characterised by dramatic epochal changes, which is radically different from the more stable and knowable time-world that is enacted in ordinary scientific discourses.
URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs070119El artículo explora el fenómeno de presenciar el futuro, a través de un estudio de caso sobre como una firma escandinava de la nueva economía logró persuadir a un grupo de periodistas de negocios de que ésta era "el futuro". Se describen los procedimientos y las estrategias retóricas desplegadas por el director para convertir a los periodistas en testigos. Se compara la estrategia del director con otros casos de observación efectiva en salas de tribunal y en ciencia. Se concluye que la capacidad persuasiva del director se deriva de su habilidad para articular una serie de contrastes acentuados entre la atractiva vida de trabajo dentro de la empresa (firma) y la problemática vida de trabajo fuera de ella. Finalmente, apunta a que la estrategia del director promulga un tiempo-mundo caracterizado por dramáticos cambios de época lo cual es sustancialmente (o radicalmente) diferente del más estable y cognoscible tiempo-mundo que es representado en el discurso científico usual.
URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs07011
Homo Participatus:On the Framing of Engagement
No full textThe paper notes two different approaches to 'engagement' in the STS litterature: critical public engagement of science and co-construction studies respectively. It argues that the construction of publics and users may be thoroughly intertwined. Finally, it explores these connections through an empirical analysis of how public/user engagement is framed in a particular case of design work
A Study of a New Economy Firm’s Powers of Persuasion
Get PDFThe article is an empirical analysis of how a Scandinavian new economy firm was able to persuade a number of business journalists that it represented ‘the future’. It analyses how visitors to the firm were met with a specific and persuasive combination of rhetorical and material ressources. It suggests that the persuasive power of the firm was based on its ability to evoke and articulate a series of pointed contrasts between the attractive working life within the firm and the ordinary and problematic work life elsewhere. The article suggests that this strategy of drawing contrasts together differs from the mode of persuasion usually described by STS.
Keywords: Sociology of expectations, Sociology of futures, Sociology of anticipation, New Economy, dot-com, persuasion, power, actor-network theory, materialised contrast argument
The Danish Association for Science and Technology Studies
No full textA presentation of the Danish Association for Science and Technology Studies (DASTS). Organization, experiences, challenges and future developments
New thoughts about old issues and old thoughts about new issues:Reconceptualizing STS approaches to engagement
No full textThe large and growing literature on 'public engagement' has centred on now-familiar themes of science and democracy, critiques of the deficit theory, relations between the sciences and their publics, and the need to 'open up' scientific governance to wider social issues and concerns. In this paper, we hope to suggest some new theoretical departures and perspectives on what has become an 'old' (but nevertheless significant) set of issues. How has the notion of 'engagement' migrated over time and what new meanings has 'engagement' acquired? What socio-technical arrangements are necessary for the performance of 'homo participatus' and how does this concept relate to more established notions of 'homo economicus'? When and how can it be said that the publics have 'engaged' - and what does this form of taking into account imply? Finally, what of the moral dimensions within STS accounts of engagement: what alternative moralities might be identified and performed within different re lationships of engagement? The paper will draw upon and develop a number of empirical sites in order to explore the changing configurations of engagement and new ways of thinking about engaging. These will include the operation of 'engagement initiatives' within scientific governance and attempts by private enterprises to engage their customers in the development of new innovative products. Our intention will be stimulate discussion and also to highlight some of the issues which will be developed in the larger session to which this paper is an introduction
Bruno Latour:Hybride tanker i en hybrid verden
No full textDenne bog er en introduktion til den franske sociolog og filosof Bruno Latour. Bogen er en indføring i Latours forfatterskab og de discipliner, han har beskæftiget sig med og medvirket til at udvikle – f.eks. STS (Science, Technology, Society) og ANT (aktør-netværks-teori). Bogen tager afsæt i en af Latours grundlæggende antagelser, nemlig at det ikke giver mening at betragte natur og kultur som adskilte fænomener – hvilket ikke desto mindre ofte bliver gjort. Denne antagelse har vigtige konsekvenser inden for f.eks. natur- og samfundsvidenskaberne, fordi de objekter, man arbejder med, hverken kan betragtes som helt igennem naturlige eller socialt konstruerede. Tværtimod må vi ifølge Latour anerkende, at fænomener som ”videnskabelige kendsgerninger” og ”samfundsmæssig orden” opstår i et komplekst netværk, hvor naturlige og kulturelle elementer væver sig ind i hinanden. Opgaven bliver her at identificere disse netværk og rekonstruere deres måder at opstå på. Bruno Latour er i dag en af Europas mest nyskabende og indflydelsesrige socialteoretikere, og denne bog er den første danske introduktion til hans forfatterskab og analysemetode. Anders Blok er ph.d.-studerende på Institut for Sociologi, Københavns Universitet. For tiden er han gæsteforsker på Harvard University, USA. Torben Elgaard Jensen er lektor ved Institut for Planlægning, Innovation og Ledelse, DTU
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