Craft and Narrative in DIY Instructions

Ittersum, Derek Van

doi:10.1080/10572252.2013.798466

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“…Narrative is an important feature of task-orientation, and thus the research design, because a thing becomes a tool in context to its story (Ingold, 2011;Van Ittersum, 2014;Lave et al, 1990;Patchett, 2016;etc.). We initially analysed participant stories using detailed narrative description but found it difficult to identify the processional phases.…”

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Searching for Tasks: Task-Orientation and the Processuality of Digital Skills

Stewart

Lesage

2020

SPIR

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Skills are not “out there” to be learned but develop through their enactment in situ. Rather than defining skills using a tool- or media-driven approach, we understand skills as situated, embodied processes known as ‘task-orientation’. Coined by Tim Ingold (2011, p. 195) this term refers to “any practical operation, carried out by a skilled agent in an environment as part of his or her normal business of life”. Part of this approach entails taking a holistic, narrative approach to investigating everyday life (Ingold, 2000; 2006; 2011) which some scholars have applied to digital media use (Moores 2017; Sumartojo et al. 2016; Pink 2016, 2015; Pink & Leder Mackley 2013; Pink 2011). We believe task-orientation offers a flexible way to define tasks performed online and offline encompassing three interrelated themes: 1) the processional quality of tool use; 2) the synergy of practitioner, tool, and material; and, 3) the coupling of perception and action. Our focus for this project is an investigation into how people perform unfamiliar tasks with digital media using the four processional phases. Unfamiliar tasks are an inherent part of our digitally-mediated everyday life to the extent that we have learned to ‘cope’ (see Sigaut 1994; see Ingold, 2000, p. 332; see also Nicolosi & Falsaperna, 2015, p. 71) with them — making them, in turn, one of our most ubiquitous and essential digital skills.

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Searching for Tasks: Task-Orientation and the Processuality of Digital Skills

Stewart

Lesage

2020

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“…TPC researchers have long agreed on the importance of studying online, user-generated procedural discourse and have researched its various forms, such as help discourse on online bulletin boards (Mirel, 1994), do-it-yourself tutorials on Instructables.com (Van Ittersum, 2014), instructional videos on YouTube (Swarts, 2012), and help documentation in software forums (Swarts, 2015). Kimball (2006) described such user-generated documentation as “tactical” because it frequently occurs in extraorganizational contexts (p. 72).…”

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Contextual Information in Social How-To Questions That Initiate Documentation

Baker

2020

Journal of Business and Technical Communication

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This study introduces social question-and-answer (SQA) documentation to technical and professional communication scholarship. It conceptualizes SQA as interactive, user-generated documentation and describes contextual information types within social how-to questions that initiate documentation. It also explores whether contextual information associates with answers that complete the interactive documentation. Results reliably describe 15 information types based on content analysis of 3,529 contextual information types from 500 questions. Exploratory statistical analysis suggests that askers may increase answerability by including less speculative thought, more error messages, and less general situation information. To facilitate complete SQA documentation, the study calls for additional research into question content and answerability.

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“…Innovation, collaboration and knowledge reuse are research topics, that have gained in interest among researchers of maker communities [27][28][29][30]. Platform usage data have been used to explore • the differences between collaboratively and individually authored projects in Scratch, a programming platform for youth [21]; • the accessibility of maker knowledge based on discourse styles [40]or • the participation patterns of female and male makers, on Instructables.com [35].…”

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“…Using the comments section, authors can reply to users' questions and novice practitioners can learn from previous experiences and questions already posted [40]. Comments were also the place where modifications were requested.…”

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Not Every Remix is an Innovation

Voigt

2018

Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Web Science

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A better understanding of how information in networks is reused or mixed, has the potential to significantly contribute to the way value is exchanged under a market-or commons-based paradigm. Data as collaborative commons, distributed under creative commons licenses, can generate novel business models and significantly spur the continuing development of the knowledge society. However, looking at data reuse in a large 3d-printing community, we show that the remixing of existing 3d models is substantially influenced by bots, customizers and self-referential designs. Linking these phenomena to a more fine-grained understanding of the process and product dimensions of innovations, we conclude that remixing patterns cannot be taken as direct indicators of innovative behavior on sharing platforms. A further exploration of remixing networks in terms of their topological characteristics is suggested as a way forward. For the empirical underpinning of our arguments, we analyzed 893,383 three-dimensional designs shared by 193,254 members. CCS CONCEPTS• Information systems → Collaborative and social computing systems and tools; • Applied computing → Education; • Hardware → Emerging tools and methodologies;

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Craft and Narrative in DIY Instructions

Cited by 32 publications

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Searching for Tasks: Task-Orientation and the Processuality of Digital Skills

Searching for Tasks: Task-Orientation and the Processuality of Digital Skills

Contextual Information in Social How-To Questions That Initiate Documentation

Not Every Remix is an Innovation

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