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From I-Awareness to We-Awareness in CSCW: a Review Essay

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2016, 2016

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Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW): Vol. 25

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Springer

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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.

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Harper, Richard (2016): From I-Awareness to We-Awareness in CSCW: a Review Essay. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW): Vol. 25. DOI: 10.1007/s10606-016-9247-8. Springer. PISSN: 1573-7551. pp. 295-301

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CSCW, Ethnography, Garfinkel, International Monetary Fund, Joint understanding, Philosophy, Shared awareness, Wittgenstein

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10.1007/s10606-016-9247-8

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10606-016-9247-8
 https://dl.eusset.eu/handle/20.500.12015/3833

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JCSCW Vol. 25 (2016)

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Number of citations to item: 6

  • Wolff-Michael Roth, Josh Tenenberg, David Socha (2016): Discourse/s in/of CSCW, In: Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 4-5(25), doi:10.1007/s10606-016-9258-5
  • David Randall, Mark Rouncefield, Peter Tolmie (2020): Ethnography, CSCW and Ethnomethodology, In: Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 2(30), doi:10.1007/s10606-020-09388-8
  • Crescencio Bravo, Rafael Duque, Ana I. Molina, Jesús Gallardo (2024): Modeling Awareness Requirements in Groupware: From Cards to Diagrams, In: IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems 1(54), doi:10.1109/thms.2023.3332592
  • Anne-Marie S. Hansen (2020): The App Is Not Where the Action Is, In: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability, doi:10.1145/3401335.3401824
  • Dave Randall (2016): What Is Common in Accounts of Common Ground?, In: Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 4-5(25), doi:10.1007/s10606-016-9256-7
  • Kjeld Schmidt, Dave Randall (2016): Preface to the Special Issue on ‘Reconsidering “Awareness” in CSCW’, In: Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 4-5(25), doi:10.1007/s10606-016-9257-6
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