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Sense and Sensibility Affective Labour in Scholarly Collaboration

Sense and Sensibility Affective Labour in Scholarly Collaboration. Stefan Dormans Smiljana Antonijevic Sally Wyatt. 4S Annual Meeting, Tokyo August 28, 2010. Outline. Premise. Theme. Focus. Sources.

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Sense and Sensibility Affective Labour in Scholarly Collaboration

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  1. Sense and Sensibility Affective Labour in Scholarly Collaboration Stefan Dormans Smiljana Antonijevic Sally Wyatt 4S Annual Meeting, Tokyo August 28, 2010

  2. Outline Premise Theme Focus

  3. Sources • Theoretical debates about immaterial and affective labour and knowledge economy(Marx 1861-63; Castells 1996; Hardt and Negri 2000; Terranova 2004; Fraser and Puwar 2008; Gill 2010) • Ethnographic study on collaboratories in social and economic history (Dormans and Kok2010) • Our own collaborative experience in writing this paper (reflections, emails, conversations, drafts)

  4. Affective labour • Activities that create, sustain, and/or modify behaviour and judgements. • Can be found in formal and informal interactions between scholars (and other social actors).

  5. Conceptual framework • Care work • Articulation work • Persuasion work • Not intended to be comprehensive or mutually exclusive. • Heuristic to draw our attention to aspects of scholarly work that often remain invisible or unspoken.

  6. Care work • Taking care of and being careful with sources, data, texts, colleagues. • Formal (disciplinary ethical codes, peer review, promotion committees) • Informal (personal and/or institutional ‘styles of behavior’) • Example: Care of technology

  7. Articulation work • A set of activities required to manage the distributed nature of cooperative work. • Planned (coordination of work, organisation of meetings) • Ad hoc (moderating discussions, managing staff turnover, communicating tacit knowledge) • Example: Google calender

  8. Persuasion work • Rhetorically, the creation of knowledge is a task beginning with self-persuasion and ending with the persuasion of others (Gross 1990). • Credibility work (topic and methods) • Reputation work (outputs) • Position work (status) • Example: Increased use of computers

  9. Discussion • Comments on existing categories? • Non-academic care, articulation, and/or persuasion work? • Additional examples? • More…

  10. Thank you Stefan Dormans s.dormans@fm.ru.nl Smiljana Antonijevic smiljana.antonijevic@vks.knaw.nl Sally Wyatt sally.wyatt@vks.knaw.nl

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