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TY - JOUR
T1 - From I-Awareness to We-Awareness in CSCW
T2 - a Review Essay
AU - Harper, R.
PY - 2016/10
Y1 - 2016/10
N2 - This paper considers the shared awareness perspective put forward by Tenenberg, Roth and Socha. Seeking to treat this view from its philosophical background in Quine, Davidson and Bratman, this paper offers a different approach to shared phenomena, one derived from Wittgenstein and Garfinkel. It explains how this view motivated one of my own study’s of work, in particular the work of economists at the International Monetary Fund, and demonstrates how these individuals operated in a shared knowledge space constituted by and reflexively organised through documents, most especially Staff Reports. This perspective on shared phenomena focuses, thus, on cultural practice and its reasoning forms. It thus also eschews the ‘mental phenomena’ central to Tenenberg, Roth and Socha’s perspective. The consequences of the Wittgenstein/Garfinkel view for systems design and CSCW are remarked upon. © 2016, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
AB - This paper considers the shared awareness perspective put forward by Tenenberg, Roth and Socha. Seeking to treat this view from its philosophical background in Quine, Davidson and Bratman, this paper offers a different approach to shared phenomena, one derived from Wittgenstein and Garfinkel. It explains how this view motivated one of my own study’s of work, in particular the work of economists at the International Monetary Fund, and demonstrates how these individuals operated in a shared knowledge space constituted by and reflexively organised through documents, most especially Staff Reports. This perspective on shared phenomena focuses, thus, on cultural practice and its reasoning forms. It thus also eschews the ‘mental phenomena’ central to Tenenberg, Roth and Socha’s perspective. The consequences of the Wittgenstein/Garfinkel view for systems design and CSCW are remarked upon. © 2016, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
KW - CSCW
KW - Ethnography
KW - Garfinkel
KW - International Monetary Fund
KW - Joint understanding
KW - Philosophy
KW - Shared awareness
KW - Wittgenstein
KW - Philosophical aspects
KW - International monetary fund
KW - Economics
U2 - 10.1007/s10606-016-9247-8
DO - 10.1007/s10606-016-9247-8
M3 - Journal article
VL - 25
SP - 295
EP - 301
JO - Computer Supported Cooperative Work
JF - Computer Supported Cooperative Work
SN - 0925-9724
IS - 4-5
ER -