Expectation and Mobilisation
Enacting Future Users
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5237359 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alex Wilkie (Goldsmiths University of London), Mike Michael (0000-0001-9272-2294, Goldsmiths University of London) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 502-522 |
| Publication date | 2009-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0162243908329188 |
| OpenAlex | W2160491173 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 33 |
| References cited | 13 |
This article considers how the figure of the ``user'' is deployed to imagine the assembling of location-based mobile phone technologies in the context of UK policy. Drawing on the sociology of expectations, we address the performativity of the ``user'' in the think tank Demos' publication Mobilisation. In the process, we analyze how discourses about users enact particular futures that feature arrangements of, for example, persons, mobile phone technologies, and political institutions. We present two narrative strategies operating in Mobilisation: first, the purification of the social and technological in the portrayal of futures and their impediments; second, how existing, emergent, and future users serve as ``narrative joints'', reconnecting the social and technological in the enactment of preferred policy trajectories. In conclusion, we explore Mobilisation as a `catalogue of expectations' in which the representation of a multiplicity of users is itself performative, enacting a particular future policy terrain while bracketing off others
Aesthetics · Economics · Futures contract · Media studies · Mobile phone · Narrative · Performative utterance · Performativity · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social media · Sociology · Telecommunications · Computer Science · E-Government and Public Services · Gender Studies · History · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Law · Social Media and Politics
Beyond Imported Magic
Régimenes de diseño, lógicas de usuarios
User Representations as a Design Resource
Connecting neuroscience and law
If they come, we will build it
The socio-material pragmatics of e-governance mobilization
Who’s behind the wheel? Visioning the future users and urban contexts of connected and autonomous vehicle technologies
Pharmaceutical prospects
Making time for soil
Infrastructuring and the formation of publics in participatory design
Law’s performativities
Futuring a world without disease
Expectations in the field of the Internet and health
The politics of anticipation
Anticipating airpocalypse
Futures, ethics and the politics of expectation in biodiversity conservation
Artefactual Multiplicity
Colgados
The nexus between large-scale innovation projects and relational infrastructures
City/future in the making
The making of Antarctic futures
Governance through expectations
Mobility intersections
Making space for 'the social
Doing User Involvement
Configuring the Child Player
Installing Telecare, Installing Users
The intersections between infrastructures and expectations
Geographies of fat waste. Or, how kitchen fats make citizens
Faire circuler des vélos et des personnes
The design-ification of future making
Prototyping as Event
Futures work
| Unique citing works | 33 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,2 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 33 |