Exploring hybrid-economic communities and the technology-mediated identities performed there

Allen, Warren

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Title

Exploring hybrid-economic communities and the technology-mediated identities performed there

Author(s)

Allen, Warren

Issue Date

2013-02

Keyword(s)

• social media
• self and identity
• professional communities
• communities of practice

Abstract

This research note describes an ongoing ethnographic study of a professional, knowledge-sharing community of information technology professionals. The overarching goal of the research is to understand the use and consequences of social information systems designed for recognizing and rewarding contri-butions to professional communities within and beyond the workplace. The research presented in this note explores the following question: How does technology mediate the performance of professional identity, and what role is played by the social institutions – e.g., the firm as employer, the firm as a market actor, the professional community, etc. – in enabling and constraining the construction of a professional identity?

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iSchools

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text

Language

en

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/39974

DOI

https://doi.org/10.9776/13281

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