Matthew J Cousineau
Biographic Data
| ID | 4276244 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew J Cousineau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew J |
| FAMILY NAME | Cousineau |
| SIGNATURE | COUSINEAU M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Auburn University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3610-5803 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Blumerian Approach to Storytelling
Blumer's work on life histories and symbolic interactionism represents an important contribution in the twenty-first century. I join his work with research on storytelling to build a Blumerian approach to storytelling. This approach holds that social actors use stories to construct subjective meanings, stories exist in some social context, stories are told or written for some audience, a wide range of social processes produce stories, the tempora…
Limiting the discourse of computer and robot anthropomorphism in a research group
Revisiting the sociology of identities and selves with discursive resources
In recent years, a growing body of multidisciplinary research has used the concept of the discursive resource. Discursive psychologists, communications scholars, and sociologists have all used this concept. Discursive resources are clusters of categories supplied by culture that present explanations for past and future activities, provide individual and collective identities for self‐construction, and enable and constrain texts. In this essay, I …
How scientists and engineers use cultural resources to make controversies and selves meaningful
In this essay, I provide an overview of recent sociological studies of science, technology, religion, and spirituality; the ways they contribute to sociological theorizing; and make some recommendations for future research. There are two major themes in these studies. One of them analyzes religious and spiritual discourse as controversy practice, suggesting how religion and spirituality are used as cultural discourses to understand controversy, w…
Community, Competition, and Citizen Science: Voluntary Distributed Computing in a Globalized World
Accomplishing Profession through Self-Mockery
One influential sociological approach to profession has it that a profession is something constructed by social actors themselves and that this work is performed through the swapping of atrocity stories. While atrocity stories are an important resource for constructing profession, they are not the only ones available to social actors. In this article, I draw on field work in an academic engineering research laboratory to document how social actor…
Respecifying Lab Ethnography – An Ethnomethodological Study of Experimental Physics
Mass Media as a Discursive Resource and the Construction of Engineering Selves
There have been different approaches to the study of the relations between mass media on the one hand and science and technological activities on the other. In this article, I summarize consumption approaches, point out some of their limitations, and then show how these limitations can be addressed by drawing on an ethnographic study I conducted of an academic engineering research laboratory. I analyze the discursive practices lab members use to …
The Surveillant Simulation of War: Entertainment and Surveillance in the 21st Century
This paper pulls together some strands in Surveillance Studies to make a case for the analytical advantages of a future direction. Conceptualizing surveillance as entertainment helps sensitize Surveillance Studies to emerging patterns of surveillance in the relationship between the military-industrial complex and entertainment. I describe four examples of this, which include both video game simulations of surveillance as well as actual military s…
Revisiting the sociology of identities and selves with discursive resources
In recent years, a growing body of multidisciplinary research has used the concept of the discursive resource. Discursive psychologists, communications scholars, and sociologists have all used this concept. Discursive resources are clusters of categories supplied by culture that present explanations for past and future activities, provide individual and collective identities for self‐construction, and enable and constrain texts. In this essay, I …
A Blumerian Approach to Storytelling
Blumer's work on life histories and symbolic interactionism represents an important contribution in the twenty-first century. I join his work with research on storytelling to build a Blumerian approach to storytelling. This approach holds that social actors use stories to construct subjective meanings, stories exist in some social context, stories are told or written for some audience, a wide range of social processes produce stories, the tempora…
The Surveillant Simulation of War: Entertainment and Surveillance in the 21st Century
This paper pulls together some strands in Surveillance Studies to make a case for the analytical advantages of a future direction. Conceptualizing surveillance as entertainment helps sensitize Surveillance Studies to emerging patterns of surveillance in the relationship between the military-industrial complex and entertainment. I describe four examples of this, which include both video game simulations of surveillance as well as actual military s…
Respecifying Lab Ethnography – An Ethnomethodological Study of Experimental Physics
Mass Media as a Discursive Resource and the Construction of Engineering Selves
There have been different approaches to the study of the relations between mass media on the one hand and science and technological activities on the other. In this article, I summarize consumption approaches, point out some of their limitations, and then show how these limitations can be addressed by drawing on an ethnographic study I conducted of an academic engineering research laboratory. I analyze the discursive practices lab members use to …
Community, Competition, and Citizen Science: Voluntary Distributed Computing in a Globalized World
Accomplishing Profession through Self-Mockery
One influential sociological approach to profession has it that a profession is something constructed by social actors themselves and that this work is performed through the swapping of atrocity stories. While atrocity stories are an important resource for constructing profession, they are not the only ones available to social actors. In this article, I draw on field work in an academic engineering research laboratory to document how social actor…
Revisiting the sociology of identities and selves with discursive resources
In recent years, a growing body of multidisciplinary research has used the concept of the discursive resource. Discursive psychologists, communications scholars, and sociologists have all used this concept. Discursive resources are clusters of categories supplied by culture that present explanations for past and future activities, provide individual and collective identities for self‐construction, and enable and constrain texts. In this essay, I …
How scientists and engineers use cultural resources to make controversies and selves meaningful
In this essay, I provide an overview of recent sociological studies of science, technology, religion, and spirituality; the ways they contribute to sociological theorizing; and make some recommendations for future research. There are two major themes in these studies. One of them analyzes religious and spiritual discourse as controversy practice, suggesting how religion and spirituality are used as cultural discourses to understand controversy, w…
Limiting the discourse of computer and robot anthropomorphism in a research group
A Blumerian Approach to Storytelling
Blumer's work on life histories and symbolic interactionism represents an important contribution in the twenty-first century. I join his work with research on storytelling to build a Blumerian approach to storytelling. This approach holds that social actors use stories to construct subjective meanings, stories exist in some social context, stories are told or written for some audience, a wide range of social processes produce stories, the tempora…
Sociology (8 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works)