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The Construction of Meaning through Digital Traces
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Hüllmann |
| Copyright Year | 2019 |
| Abstract | Contemporary work has seen a shift towards project-based forms of organizing, as spanning temporal and spatial boundaries becomes a common experience. Employees, dispersed across the globe and time zones, serve on multiple teams, which are rapidly staffed to collaborate for a short period of time (Barley & Kunda, 2001; Wageman, Gardner, & Mortensen, 2012). The variance in schedule, location, tasks, tools, colleagues, and hierarchy, as well as its dynamics, increases the complexity of work, leading to a heterogeneous network of relationships, and a fragmented task and social environment (Espinosa, Cummings, Wilson, & Pearce, 2003). In such a workplace employees work together through extensive use of communication and collaboration tools (Espinosa et al., 2003; Orlikowski & Scott, 2016), which generates digital traces (Barley & Kunda, 2001; Behrendt, Richter, & Trier, 2014). I question how the analysis of these digital traces complements existing methods of inquiring the changing nature of work by presenting results from two pilot studies. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.joschka-huellmann.net/publications/2019-11-11-huellmann-construction-meaning-digital-traces.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
