Representational Practices in Demands Driven Development of Public Sector

Sefyrin, Johanna; Gidlund, Katarina L.; Öberg, Karin; Ekelin, Annelie

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-40358-3_17

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“…Based on a norm-critical design understanding (Dunne & Raby, 2001), we searched for more interventionist methodologies in terms of co-constructing new ways of understanding what is articulated and by whom, as well as what could be articulated and by whom (Zuiderent-Jerak & Bruun Jensen, 2007). Since identity-oriented representational practices often tend to reproduce stereotypical identities (Sefyrin, Danielsson Öberg, Ekelin, & Gidlund, 2013), we have chosen to focus on excluding and including practices from an institutional perspective, letting the practitioners on the 'inside' question their ability to include and invite other representations of cultural heritage.…”

Section: Methodological Choices and Empirical Settingmentioning

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‘Everything’ disappears … reflexive design and norm-critical intervention in the digitalization of cultural heritage

Nyhlén

Gidlund

2018

Information, Communication & Society

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According to narrative trends, digitalization has the potential to deconstruct both power structures and practices of exclusion in society. What we argue here is that this deconstruction is not the result of digitalization alone, it is dependent on how digitalization is done. On the contrary, digitalization has often resulted in reproduction instead of transformation and deconstruction, i.e. digitalization tend to uphold practices instead of challenging them. Being slightly more provocative, what becomes digitalized is often what we can easily capture and understand. Similarly, when we open up for an increased participation in the creation of digital artifacts (sometimes expressed as demand-driven, citizen-centered, or participatory development), those participating in digitalization are often already known; the use of already established contact channels making them easy to reach and connect with. Such logics raise questions about the intersections of norms and power and the potential transformative character of digitalization. The aim of this paper is to, through a theoretical framework combining critical information systems, policy enactment and norm critical design, introduce a reflexive design method to gently provoke norms. We analyze the need to intervene in the everyday practices of digitalization. This is done in an empirical case study of the making of a regional digital cultural heritage portal. The results indicate that digitalization needs norm critical interventions to change existing practices and prevent norm reproduction. Otherwise, as in this case of the digitalization of cultural heritage, digitalization runs the risk of strengthening existing power structures and excluding practices instead of challenging them.

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Section: Methodological Choices and Empirical Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Everything’ disappears … reflexive design and norm-critical intervention in the digitalization of cultural heritage

Nyhlén

Gidlund

2018

Information, Communication & Society

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“…represented (Sefyrin et al, 2013, Sefyrin & Gidlund, 2014. This signifies that the categories that are often used for representation (such as the number of women in steering committees) are seen as formed within dominant practices and power relations through the application of boundaries that include and exclude.…”

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“…It must also be declared that we are not Proof 26/01/2021;11:28 File: ip-1-ip200230.tex; BOKCTP/ljl p. 4 4 K.L. Gidlund and L. Sundberg / Undisclosed creators of digitalization completely comfortable with representation as a concept, at least not when it is used at the individual level claiming that one carries one's representation and is expected to perform in relation to it (Sefyrin et al, 2013). In this paper, the focus is therefore not on the specific individuals but on the individual professional identities as subjects to individuals as carriers and mediators of discursive practices and structures (Barad, 2007).…”

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Undisclosed creators of digitalization: A critical analysis of representational practices

Gidlund¹,

Sundberg²

2021

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The aim of this paper is to study over- and under representational practices in governmental expert advisory groups on digitalization to open up a dialogue on translations of digitalization. By uncovering how meanings converge and interpretations associated with technology are stabilized or maybe even closed, this research is in positioned within a critical research tradition. The chosen analytical framework stretches from a link between technological culture (i.e., how and where the myths and symbolic narratives are constructed), a focus on the process of interpretation (i.e., the flexibility in how digitalization could be translated and attached to different political goals and values) and a dimension of firstness (addressing education, professional experiences and geographical position to explore dominance and power aspects). The results reveal a homogeneity that is potentially problematic and raises questions about the frames for interpreting what digitalization could and should be and do. We argue that the strong placement of digitalization in the knowledge base disclosed in this study hinders digitalization from being more knowledgeably translated.

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“…The premise to my argument can therefore be formulated as follows: relations of thinking and knowing require care" [13, p. 198]. Another focus is how power relations affect who is included and who is not in technoscience practices [24], [14], how technosciences such as digital technologies contribute to both the reproduction of problematic social, economic and material structures, and to the destabilization of these [27], [8], problematic categorizations and representational practices [8], [3], [39], and power/knowledge in technoscience practices [17]. Feminist technosciences underscore that gender science is not only about relations between women and men, but also about understanding agency, bodies, rationality and the boundary making between e.g.…”

Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Feminist Technoscience as a Resource for Working with Science Practices, a Critical Approach, and Gender Equality in Swedish Higher IT Educations

Sefyrin

Elovaara

Mörtberg

2018

This Changes Everything – ICT and Climate Change: What Can We Do?

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Science is according to the Swedish legislation for higher education (Högskoleförordningen) a central quality aim for higher educations. In the Swedish Higher Education Authority's (UKÄ) new quality assurance system, the integration of gender equality is one of several quality aspects that are being measured. This paper concerns a planned study with the aim to explore how feminist technoscience can contribute to challenging existing science practices, and a critical approach, while at the same time work as a theoretical resource for the integration of gender equality in Swedish higher IT educations. Feminist technoscience makes possible critical questions about scientific practices in both educational contexts and in work life, about researchers' positioning, about consequences, and about power issues. Posing such questions is central in IT educations, since we live in a society in which digital technologies increasingly constitute preconditions for a working reality, and both reproduce existing structures and form new patterns. In this reality it is central to ask whether current science practices are enough, and how feminist technoscience can make a difference, in those educations that produce the IT experts of the tomorrow. The study will be conducted as a qualitative field study with a focus on how teachers and students in Swedish higher IT educations practice science and a critical approach, and feminist technoscience in their educations.

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Representational Practices in Demands Driven Development of Public Sector

Cited by 7 publications

References 9 publications

‘Everything’ disappears … reflexive design and norm-critical intervention in the digitalization of cultural heritage

‘Everything’ disappears … reflexive design and norm-critical intervention in the digitalization of cultural heritage

Undisclosed creators of digitalization: A critical analysis of representational practices

Feminist Technoscience as a Resource for Working with Science Practices, a Critical Approach, and Gender Equality in Swedish Higher IT Educations

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