Epistemic Objects and Embeddedness

Knowledge Construction and Narratives in Research Networks of Practice

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7098613
AutoresEmad Khazraee (0000-0002-9873-2781, University of Pennsylvania, autor correspondente), Susan Gasson (0000-0003-2058-3074, Drexel University)
Ano2015
Volume31
Fascículo2
Páginas139-159
Data de publicação2015-03-15
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Information Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0197-2243 • E-ISSN: 1087-6537
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01972243.2015.998104
OpenAlexW2089113997
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências 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