Search for dissertations about: "Articulation Work"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 46 swedish dissertations containing the words Articulation Work.

  2. 1. Managers' Cooperative Work Practices in Computational Artefacts-Supported Library Systems

    Author : Niki Chatzipanagiotou; Anita Mirijamdotter; Jaime Campos; Christina Mörtberg; Ulrika Lund Snis; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Work Practice; Cooperative Work; Cooperative Work Practices; Computational Artefacts; Computer-Supported Cooperative Work; Articulation Work; Awareness; Appropriation; Ethnography; Focused-Ethnography; Fieldwork; Vignettes; Complexity; Managers; Management; Libraries; Academic Library; Academic Library Managers; Informatik; Information Systems;

    Abstract : The dissertation presents understandings of the complex, contextual, cooperative everyday work practices of academic library managers supported by computational artefacts, as well as challenges disrupting their practices and thereby computational artefacts usage. The doctoral research approaches and conceptualises managers’ work as ‘everyday cooperative practice’, in this way adopting the computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) approach. READ MORE

  4. 2. Testing Pills, Enacting Obesity : The work of localizing tools in a clinical trial

    Author : Petra Jonvallen; Boel Berner; Claes-Fredrik Helgesson; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Invisible work; contract research organisation; standardization; articulation work; production tasks; enactment; evidence based medicine; clinical trials; clinical research protocol; rationalizing tools; obesity; pharmaceutical production; clinical practice; medicalisation; Övervikt; klinisk prövning; Technology and social change; Teknik och social förändring; Genus och teknik;

    Abstract : This study examines tools and practices involved in a large scale and multi-sited clinical trial of a potential drug against obesity. Two tools are in focus: a clinical research protocol and a computer control system. READ MORE

  5. 3. Conflict and concord in work and family : Family policies and individuals' subjective experiences

    Author : Ida Öun; Stefan Svallfors; Maria Charles; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Work-family conflict; role expansion; family policy; gender; class; dual-earner families; household work; perceptions of fairness;

    Abstract : Background This thesis explores the relationship between individuals’ subjective experiences and the welfare state setting. The research questions in focus deal with the outcomes of women’s and men’s increasing dual roles in work and family in contemporary welfare states. READ MORE

  6. 4. Making Doable Problems within Controversial Science : U.S. and Swedish Scientists’ Experience of Gene Transfer Research

    Author : Hannah Grankvist; Boel Berner; Claes-Fredrik Helgesson; Margareta Hallberg; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : Gene transfer; biomedicine; controversy; situatedness; doability; doable problems; alignment; articulation work; boundary-work; frame of reference; U.S.A.; Sweden; interviews; Genterapi; biomedicin; kontrovers; doability; utförbara problem; alignment; situatedness; articulation work; gränsarbete; referensram; USA; Sverige; intervjuer.; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP;

    Abstract : This thesis explores how scientists within the controversial scientific field of gene  transfer make their research doable. Based on in-depth interviews with gene transfer scientists and key individuals from different regulatory agencies and advisory boards in Sweden and the U.S.A. READ MORE

  7. 5. Striking a balance : Managing collaborative multitasking in computer-supported cooperation

    Author : Rikard Harr; Victor Kaptelinin; Mikael Wiberg; Oskar Juhlin; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Computer-supported Cooperative Work; articulation work; individual task execution; balance; interruptions; availability; awareness; interaction; information technology; multitasking; task switching; Informatics; computer and systems science; Informatik; data- och systemvetenskap;

    Abstract : This thesis is a collection of six papers and a cover paper reporting an exploration of how to strike a balance between individual task execution and work articulation in Computer-supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). The interest in this theme is motivated by an increased reliance of IT-supported cooperative work arrangements in modern organizations, the fragmented layout of work for multitasking individuals and reports on various forms of overload, increased level of stress and anxiety experienced by workers active in these organizations. READ MORE