Summer School 2013 "Situating Media" - Participants
Juri Dachtera (Siegen)
Supporting work practices with IT - the case of an interdisciplinary research community (EUSSET)
I will present my PhD-thesis as a Design Case Study (cf. Wulf et al., 2011), which aims to support an interdisciplinary community of practice-oriented researchers (EUSSET) and industry partners in their practices of knowledge exchange and institutionalization. In contrast to most other Ph.D.-projects at the postgraduate program, my thesis not only aims at gaining a thorough understanding of the field, but is also design-oriented. The eventual goal is the development of an online platform, based on empirical insights derived from interviews and participant observation. My research is roughly divided into three parts: (1) empirical pre-study, (2) design and (3) evaluation. In my talk, I will present some results from the first phase of my work: From formal and informal interviews, participant observations and (because I have mainly a community of scholars at hand) also the assessment of research papers, I draw some preliminary implications for the design of the platform. Furthermore, I delineate theoretical strands of literature, which can serve as sensitizing concepts to inform the understanding of EUSSET as a community and which might prove useful for the interpretation of my data.
Juri Dachtera studied European Studies, as well as Science and Technology Studies at the universities of Maastricht, Warsaw and Bielefeld and the ETH Zurich. Besides his studies, he worked as a student assistant at the chair for Business Informatics and New Media at the university of Siegen, where he now works for his Ph.D.. His research interests comprise knowledge management, sociology of science, computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) as well as qualitative research methods and media research.
Recent Publications
2013: “Sharing Knowledge and Expertise. The CSCW View of Knowledge Management” (with Mark Ackerman, Volkmar Pipek, and Volker Wulf), in: Computer Supported Cooperative Work. 20 years Jubilee Edition (in preparation).