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The history of this special issue of the CSCW Journal goes back to 1997 and a book entitled ''Social Science, Technical Systems and Cooperative Work: Beyond the Great Divide'' (Bowker et al., 1997). The book concluded that an increasing number of researchers were electing to take up residence in the great divide in order to produce systems which were organizationally and socially sensitive. After more than two decades of effort, the early war stories of CSCW pitting the human, emotion-laden, contingent context of cooper- ative work (CW) against the formal, rational and potentially universal character of computer support (CS) were losing their appeal. Social scientists (primarily from sociology and anthropology; and attached either to research laboratories like PARC or universities) and computer and information sci- entists (primarily from software development, requirements engineering and artificial intelligence) had created a new form of partnership. Three condi- tions were evoked in order to explain the emergence of this new partnership (Turner, 1997). The first was that the CSCW community had largely moved away from a concern with normative social scientific questions. For example, efforts aimed at understanding how human and technical systems come together in com- puting systems were, in the 1960s, strongly anchored in concerns about automation (e.g., ''deskilling,'' stratification and job loss) but, by the middle of the 1990s, this concern had become a plank of accepted CSCW practice. No member of the CSCW community now doubts that the goal of in-depth investigations of the workplace is to develop easier-to-use systems that enhance working conditions rather than impoverishing them. To the |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2006 | 10.1007/s10606-006-9014-3 | Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 96 |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Collective Activity,Cooperative Work,Information Infrastructure,Framing Problem,Semiotic System | Appeal,Computer-supported cooperative work,Normative,Sociology,Requirements engineering,Knowledge management,Human–computer interaction,Deskilling,General partnership,Software development,Information infrastructure | Journal |
Volume | Issue | Citations |
15 | 2-3 | 29 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
1.29 | 0 | 4 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Turner | 1 | 29 | 1.63 |
| Geoffrey Bowker | 2 | 37 | 2.00 |
| Les Gasser | 3 | 1601 | 261.00 |
| Manuel Zacklad | 4 | 92 | 17.22 |