“…Although, like all research, our study identifies areas that need further investigation, the methodological approach adopted has enabled the production of new knowledge about the nomadic practices of academics and the implications for CSCW research on nomadicity. The use of complementary data collection instruments is necessary to document and understand these practices in nuanced ways that enable the multi-faceted nature of nomadicity to be revealed [15].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…is also facilitating the mobilisation of resources necessary for the accomplishment of work at locations where other resources such as time or collaborators are available [33,44]. There is, therefore, a need to gain an accurate understanding of nomadicity beyond studies of physical mobility, and particularly so in the context of research on socio-technical systems focusing on practice, such as that conducted within CSCW [15]. This paper reports on the findings of a study exploring the lives of people who engage in work in and across several locations, using a wide range of technological devices and services to mediate the accomplishment of their productive activities.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We refer to Kleinrock's [33] concept of nomadicity, which accounts for people's movement and engagement with activities in locations with different computing infrastructures. The notion of nomadicity has been appropriated in CSCW to refer to the processes underlying the accomplishment of work in and across different locations with the help of computer technologies to mobilise the workplace to such locations (for a summary see [15]). …”
Recent CSCW research has shown that nomadicity can be seen as a dynamic process that emerges as people engage with practices supporting them in the mobilisation of their workplace to accomplish work in and across different locations. This paper elaborates on the emergent aspects of the process by detailing a spectrum of motivational and contextual forces that surround and shape nomadic practices. The paper contributes to existing CSCW literature on nomadicity and extends it by articulating the complex intersections of motive and context that shape nomadic practices. The findings that the paper presents emerged from an ethnographic study of a group of academics and their nomadic work/life practices.
“…Although, like all research, our study identifies areas that need further investigation, the methodological approach adopted has enabled the production of new knowledge about the nomadic practices of academics and the implications for CSCW research on nomadicity. The use of complementary data collection instruments is necessary to document and understand these practices in nuanced ways that enable the multi-faceted nature of nomadicity to be revealed [15].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…is also facilitating the mobilisation of resources necessary for the accomplishment of work at locations where other resources such as time or collaborators are available [33,44]. There is, therefore, a need to gain an accurate understanding of nomadicity beyond studies of physical mobility, and particularly so in the context of research on socio-technical systems focusing on practice, such as that conducted within CSCW [15]. This paper reports on the findings of a study exploring the lives of people who engage in work in and across several locations, using a wide range of technological devices and services to mediate the accomplishment of their productive activities.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We refer to Kleinrock's [33] concept of nomadicity, which accounts for people's movement and engagement with activities in locations with different computing infrastructures. The notion of nomadicity has been appropriated in CSCW to refer to the processes underlying the accomplishment of work in and across different locations with the help of computer technologies to mobilise the workplace to such locations (for a summary see [15]). …”
Recent CSCW research has shown that nomadicity can be seen as a dynamic process that emerges as people engage with practices supporting them in the mobilisation of their workplace to accomplish work in and across different locations. This paper elaborates on the emergent aspects of the process by detailing a spectrum of motivational and contextual forces that surround and shape nomadic practices. The paper contributes to existing CSCW literature on nomadicity and extends it by articulating the complex intersections of motive and context that shape nomadic practices. The findings that the paper presents emerged from an ethnographic study of a group of academics and their nomadic work/life practices.
“…Moreover, work is often carried out on the move [13,14] and not by sitting still at a desk [15,16] In addition, many different kinds of work are carried out in the home: paid work, care work and housework [6,[17][18][19] to mention a few. Even when discussing working from home, Bødker [6,9] seems to agree with the polarization of rationality and emotion emphasized in the first dimension.…”
Section: Work and The Automation Of Work Tasksmentioning
Doing civic duties is neither paid work nor leisure: it is a private, work-like activity. Digital services enrol customers in doing work tasks. Also digital public services delegate work to citizens, but there are important differences between automation for citizens doing their civic duties and services that customers choose to use. In this paper, we discuss how digitally automated services remove some tasks but also introduce new work tasks for citizens and how citizens handle these. We present a study of citizens' calls to a public service provider (the tax authorities) requesting help carrying out their civic duties. The analysis of citizens' problems with doing their taxes is a basis for suggesting an alternative design of digital tax services that can increase citizens' mastery and autonomy when doing their taxes. We suggest an approach for designing coherent tasks for the citizen, and how doing one's civic duties can be seen as work-and as a part of life. We argue that designing for automated public services need to apply a citizen-centric perspective in order to maintain a basis for citizens to participate in democratic processes in society.
“…The notion of modern nomadicity is increasingly discussed as an aspect of work practices associated with work that takes place in multiple locations and is mediated and supported by technology. Ciolfi and de Carvalho (, p. 127) explain that for many authors: the advent and spread of mobile and networked technologies such as laptops, PDAs, mobile and smart phones and so forth, is one of the foundations to the proliferation of nomadic practices, because it allows for the mobility of the workplace to new locations where necessary resources to conduct the work can be found. (Ciolfi & de Carvalho, , p. 127)…”
Section: Nomadic Work and Modern Nomadicitymentioning
The paper builds on the work of Rossitto et al. on collaborative nomadic work to develop three categories of practice of nomadic collaborative learning groups. Our study is based on interviews, workshops and observations of two undergraduate student's group practices engaged in self‐organised, long‐term collaborations within the frame of Problem and Project Based Learning. By analysing the patterns of nomadic collaborative learning we identify and discuss how the two groups of students incorporate mobile and digital technologies as well as physical and/or non‐digital technologies into their group work. Specifically, we identify the following categories of nomadic collaborative learning practices: “orchestration of work phases, spaces and activities,” “the orchestration of multiple technologies” and “orchestration of togetherness.” We found that for both groups of students there was a fluidity, situatedness and improvisational aspect to how they negotiate the orchestration of their work. Their ways of utilising space, places, technologies and activities over time was a complex interweaving of the digital and physical. We conclude by suggesting that the three categories of practice identified are important for deepening our understanding of nomadic collaborative learning groups.
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