The future of digital working: knowledge migration and learning

Against the backdrop of intensified migration linked to globalisation, this article considers the implications of knowledge migration for future digital workers. It draws empirically on a socio-material analysis of the international software localisation industry. Localisers' work requires linguistic, cultural and software engineering skills to adapt digital products to be marketed worldwide. The article addresses the problem of the need for better understanding of knowledge practices in digital working and offers new insights by examining work and learning against the theoretical question of how knowledge migrates. Drawing on the writing of sociologist Karin Knorr Cetina, it illustrates how workers reformulate knowledge and practise visibility through object relations that support learning. The article concludes with five recommendations for incorporating insights gained through this analysis in education.     

Conceptualising the knowledge work of digital professionals through Knorr Cetina's ideas of macro-epistemics and information knowledge

The problem addressed in this paper is the need for analytical resources to theorise the nature of knowledge work and, in the light of a practice turn in social sciences, to consider how knowledge is generated and circulated. The aim of the paper is to contribute to a practice-based rethinking of how to investigate professional knowledge, relating its considerations to a case of digital workers. It suggests that Knorr Cetina's ideas of macro-epistemics and information knowledge offer analytical resources for theorising knowledge as practised. The paper's considerations are drawn from an empirical study of 10 localisers who were digital workers from continental Europe, Ireland, the UK and South America and whose work entailed the linguistic, cultural and software adaptation of digital products to support global communication. The paper first presents localisers and explains their knowledge work, second, it positions its considerations in the field of practice theory, exploring Knorr Cetina's concepts of macro-epistemics and information knowledge. Lastly, it draws on localiser data to consider how these concepts offer analytical resources for researching adults' knowledge. The paper will be relevant to educationalists interested in the implications of new theoretical developments for understanding the generation and circulation of professional knowledge.     

作为文学推理者的科学家:谢廷娜科学论文观评析

传统科学论文分析范式是内容无涉的神话式分析模式,它在科学实践与科学论文之间体现出"反映式书写"的认识论逻辑,以默顿学派的结构功能主义和普赖斯的科学计量学为代表.而谢廷娜则以"建构论"为武器,从科学论文与实验室实践、科学论文由初稿到终稿转换序列、超科学场域的视野三个方面,分析了科学论文所蕴含的修辞、利益、文学技巧等非认知方面.为人们重新认识科学论文的性质、科学论文与科学实践的关系提供了新的概念与工具,具有重要的认识论与方法论意义.但同时她也具有自身的局限性,特别是她应用了社会决定论的理念.如何突破这一局限,尝试性地提出评价科学论文的实践视域观.