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Abstract | ||
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Problems of temporality in distributed cooperative work have emerged as an important theme of CSCW and HCI work. This paper draws on ethnographic fieldwork into large-scale infrastructure development in ecology and ocean science and analyses of futurism in science and technology studies to call attention to \"anticipation work\": the practices that cultivate and channel expectations of the future, design pathways into those imaginations, and maintain those visions in the face of a dynamic world. We advance three basic claims: first, that long term technological development and sustainability in science is guided by complex and distributed forms of futurism; second, that all actors (both individual and collective) orient towards the future (at both temporally close and distant scales); and third, that actors engage in complex and skilled forms of anticipation work -- individual and collective, formal and informal -- that guide and shape the present character and experience of collaborative life. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2015 | 10.1145/2675133.2675298 | CSCW |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
collaboration,oceanography,futures,infrastructure,temporality,anticipation,futurism,time,computer-supported collaborative work,ecology | Computer-supported cooperative work,Sociology,Anticipation,Cooperative work,Vision,Human–computer interaction,Ocean science,Ethnography,Sustainability,Temporality | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
12 | 0.62 | 18 |
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2 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Stephanie B. Steinhardt | 1 | 61 | 4.37 |
| Steven J. Jackson | 2 | 380 | 27.24 |