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|Abstract=Ethnomethodology has made an important and highly influential contribution to our understanding of technology. It has provided the analytic and methodological resources with which to reconsider a number of key concepts and ideas within the social and cognitive sciences and has provided the foundation to a substantial corpus of studies of technology in action. To exemplify these analytic concerns, the authors consider a surveillance technology and the ways in which personnel use the system to detect and manage the problems and difficulties that arise in the operation of a major urban transport network. They consider how the use of the technology, to survey and manage incidents and events that might ordinarily pass unnoticed, is dependent upon the operators’ working knowledge of the environment, its characteristics and contingencies, and their familiarity with the routine patterns of conduct and interaction that arise within certain locales. In short, the system’s use is embedded within practice and practical action. By driving analytic attention toward the endogenous and situated character of technology in action, ethnomethodology has had a significant impact on contemporary research and practice throughout a range of disciplines in both the human and physical sciences.
 
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Latest revision as of 13:02, 5 August 2023

Heath2022
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Heath2022
Author(s) Christian Heath, Paul Luff
Title Technology in Practice
Editor(s) Douglas W. Maynard, John Heritage
Tag(s) EMCA, Technology
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year 2022
Language English
City New York, NY
Month
Journal
Volume
Number
Pages 398–419
URL Link
DOI 10.1093/oso/9780190854409.003.0015
ISBN
Organization
Institution
School
Type
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Series
Howpublished
Book title The Ethnomethodology Program: Legacies and Prospects
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Abstract

Ethnomethodology has made an important and highly influential contribution to our understanding of technology. It has provided the analytic and methodological resources with which to reconsider a number of key concepts and ideas within the social and cognitive sciences and has provided the foundation to a substantial corpus of studies of technology in action. To exemplify these analytic concerns, the authors consider a surveillance technology and the ways in which personnel use the system to detect and manage the problems and difficulties that arise in the operation of a major urban transport network. They consider how the use of the technology, to survey and manage incidents and events that might ordinarily pass unnoticed, is dependent upon the operators’ working knowledge of the environment, its characteristics and contingencies, and their familiarity with the routine patterns of conduct and interaction that arise within certain locales. In short, the system’s use is embedded within practice and practical action. By driving analytic attention toward the endogenous and situated character of technology in action, ethnomethodology has had a significant impact on contemporary research and practice throughout a range of disciplines in both the human and physical sciences.

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