Chapter 2 of Nicolini (2012) provides a quick tour through a few thousand years of philosophy to highlight the deep roots of practice theory.
Nicolini, D. (2012). Practice theory, work, and organization: An introduction. Oxford University Press.
As I previously mentioned I’m taking a look at Practice Theory as part of my coursework this semester. First up is reading Davide Nicolini’s Practice Theory, Work, and Organization. This post is about chapter one, but I may cover multiple chapters in subsequent posts.
This semester I’m going to be doing an independent study with Professor Andrea Wiggins to research and apply Practice Theory in my own work. I’ve included part of my research proposal (which is still a bit in flux at the moment) below. The plan is to use this web space to write up notes about my reading and work as I go. I thought I’d share it in case it shows up in your feed reader–hey I’m told people still use them. Writing here also puts a little bit of pressure on myself to stick to the plan as best I can. I’ll tag all the posts with practice.
Here’s Langdon Winner talking about the effects of computing and telecommunications in 1984 (Winner, 1984). It’s kind of astonishing that this much was visible to him thirty years ago.
Winner, L. (1984). Mythinformation in the high-tech era. Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 4(6), 582–596. https://doi.org/10.1177/027046768400400609
Below are some remarks I made on a panel at Archival Education and Research Institute (AERI) 2016 about the Documenting the Now project.
Slightly more than 140 characters about design, written to temporarily distract myself from thinking about a term paper.
WARC is often thought of as a useful preservation format for websites and Web content, but it can also be a useful tool in your toolbox for Web maintenance work.
