From I-Awareness to We-Awareness in CSCW

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

“…This seems a very different world from the one described by Tenenberg et al (2016) -there doesn't seem much sharing of cultural practice here, more a desire for 'we-intentions' when 'intention' seems to be a problem -when one of those in a pair programming activity seeks to understand what the other's intention might be as if it might be something beyond the expected, the culturally familiar, the doings of a world known in common.…”

Discourse/s in/of CSCW

“…There are those that begin with individual cognition from which the social is to be constructed (Greenberg and Gutwin 2016;Tenenberg et al 2016). These are contrasted by suggestions that 'a better conception is to think of code writing as an instance of cultural practice where the culture is the thing that members of the community in question share' (Harper 2016, this issue, §1).…”

“…Even in accounts that apparently rely on the primacy of the social, the actions are attributed to individuals. For example, the lead article states analyzing 'joint activity' (Tenenberg et al 2016, this issue, §4.3.1), but then offers a description in which the work is accounted for as a sequence of individual actions-e.g. 'Hank turns to gaze directly toward Danny, who does not turn to meet Hank's gaze but continues to orient to the left monitor' ( §4.3.1).…”

Treacherous Ground: On Some Conceptual Pitfalls in CSCW

“…In their article in this issue of the CSCW Journal, Tenenberg et al (2016) put an end to this intellectually untenable state of affairs, by confronting established positions in CSCW with an articulate critique. With that, we can no longer proceed as if we do not have a problem.…”