Epistemic Objects and Embeddedness

Knowledge Construction and Narratives in Research Networks of Practice

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7098613
AutoresEmad Khazraee (0000-0002-9873-2781, University of Pennsylvania, autor de correspondencia), Susan Gasson (0000-0003-2058-3074, Drexel University)
Año2015
Volumen31
Número2
Páginas139-159
Fecha de publicación2015-03-15
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Information Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0197-2243 • E-ISSN: 1087-6537
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01972243.2015.998104
OpenAlexW2089113997
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas49

In this article, we explore the meanings of objectual practice that are revealed by examining embedded information structures and performativity. We conceptualize a network of practice as a nexus of interconnected practice, formed around materially mediated interdependencies across communities of practice. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork of archaeology research, conducted across multiple research disciplines and communities of practice, we identify the material components of embedded information and explicate the processes by which objectual and social practices shape the adoption of theories across the network, creating knowledge-in-practice. We conceptualize knowledge construction as a product of the constant tension between contextualization and decontextualization (embeddedness and disembeddedness). Our findings demonstrate the mechanisms by which exploratory interactions with the information embedded in things (research objects) produce breakdowns that reveal inconsistencies within current theories

Actor–network theory · Aesthetics · Community of practice · Contextualization · Embeddedness · Epistemology · Ethnography · Interdependence · Knowledge management · Linguistics · Materiality (auditing · Narrative · Nexus (standard · Performativity · Practice theory · Social practice · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · Computer Science · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Museums and Cultural Heritage