<i>Phronesis</i> and Creativity: Knowledge Work in Video Game Development

Zackariasson, Peter; Styhre, Alexander; Wilson, Timothy L.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8691.2006.00400.x

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“…Studies of professional vision and visuality potentially enable a new understanding of a variety of specific fields and industries. Another example is the growing computer game industry where the 'gamer's vision', the ability to instantly evaluate 'what works and what does not' when developing computer games, is a form of professional vision underlying the generation of major income (Jenkins 2006;Zackariasson, Styhre, and Wilson 2006). A combination of theories concerning 'epistemologies of the eye' and 'practices of seeing' may pave the way for new research projects in organization theory.…”

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Knowledge work and practices of seeing: Epistemologies of the eye, gaze, and professional vision

Styhre

2010

Culture and Organization

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Much practice within organizations is to some extent embodied in and centered on the visual capacities of the agent, the acting subject. Distinguishing between 'epistemologies of the eye', i.e. theories of how knowledge is acquired through visual practices, and 'practices of seeing', i.e. theories and studies of how vision and visuality are actually used in everyday working life, the paper points to the need to understand vision and visuality in organizational practice. Using the case of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), it is suggested that professional vision, i.e. practices of seeing that are shared within epistemic communities, is firstly technologically mediated and, secondly, based on the ability to combine vision, speech, gesture, and other embodied and cognitive resources in order to make sense of the images produced by fMRI technology. The paper concludes that organization theory should examine practices of seeing in greater detail and as part of the project in order to understand how knowledge is constituted and used as a collectively constituted resource within organizations.

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Knowledge work and practices of seeing: Epistemologies of the eye, gaze, and professional vision

Styhre

2010

Culture and Organization

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“…This type of grabber is consequently both easier to use and more useful if the author has a paper that is based on a "new" phenomenon or surprising idea. An example of such writing practices is the 745 First impression the Wilsonian way statement by Zackariasson et al (2006) that "One of the most dynamic and creative industries today is the video game industry." The sentence awakens questions of wanting to learn more, since readers might ask themselves, "Why is that?"…”

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The grabber: making a first impression the Wilsonian way

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Hällgren

2014

International Journal of Managing Projects in Business

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“…This learning is conducted very close to real-time and allows the two-sided market to adjust very quickly. This phronetic relationship is very conducive to the natural developmental disposition of the video game industry, which is very creative and innovative (Zackariasson, Styhre, & Wilson, 2006).…”

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confidence: 99%