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Kawatoko2003
BibType ARTICLE
Key Kawatoko2003
Author(s) Yasuko Kawatoko, Naoki Ueno
Title Talking about skill: Making objects, technologies and communities visible
Editor(s) M. Ball
Tag(s) EMCA, Workplace studies, Skill, Objects, Technology, Community
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Year 2003
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Journal Visual Studies
Volume 18
Number 1
Pages 47-57
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DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1472586032000100065
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Abstract

Through an analysis of scientific practice and discourse, this paper explores an aspect of how work communities are constituted. It explores how scientists in a biotechnology laboratory make a research object visible or organize it. It is argued that making a work object visible is part of the display of skill or technique in laboratory work. Making scientific products visible can involve making skill and community visible. When describing certain problems encountered in working with technologies, the scientists employ the distinction between “the skilled” and “the unskilled”, specialists in the lab and non-specialists. Describing the technology can serve as a work practice for making an occupational community visible.

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