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Coordination of Digital Media Production Networks. Presentation at Helsinki Photomedia 2012. Local production community Core in web, movie and sound production Embedded in media, culture and PR/advert sector. 4-5000 persons. 4-500 persons. Theory.
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Coordination of Digital Media Production Networks Presentation at HelsinkiPhotomedia 2012
Local production community • Core in web, movie and sound production • Embedded in media, culture and PR/advert sector 4-5000 persons 4-500 persons
Theory • Social networks (nodes and links, brokerage) • Symbolic interaction (talking, looking, showing) • ANT (material work and communication) the exchange of gestures and application of vocabularieswhilecoordinating the digital shaping and moving of material artefacts
Method • Thematic open ended interviews • Documenting experiences, stories, • Documenting hopes, fears • Analysis: extracting social maps • Analysis: extracting perspectives • Analysis: sociotechnical interactions
Webdesign example • http://www.univox.se/ • Vi på Univox har en vision om marknadsföring där vi förenar reklambyråns kreativa arbete med ett marknadsekonomiskt tänkande som sätter ditt företags resultat i fokus.
Making things happen • Priority of the the end product • Product as structuring object • Social issues in coordination • Technical issues in coordination • Matters of taste
Social issues • Division of labour • The price of work • Complementary competence • Specialists and multicompetence • Problem: Critical customer mass
Technical issues • Compatibility and file formats • Quality (resolutions) • Transferability and learning • Problem: Minimum technical skill
Matters of taste • Conventions • Style • Genre • Taste: Common social skills of judgement
Coordinating principles Social networks Collaborations Interactions Talk TechniquesStyles CompatibilitiesSymbolic Practices Visual MeasurementsWordless
The vocabulary of visualpractice(Professional and commercial) • The relative silence of visual interaction • The ”interpretation” of gesture • That which is taken for granted • The things that work • The evocation of feeling by style • Emotion? Taste? A sense of social positioning?