Newsmaking and Sensemaking: Navigating Temporal Transitions Between Planned and Unexpected Events

Patriotta, Gerardo; Gruber, Daniel A.

doi:10.1287/orsc.2015.1005

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“…In carrying out prospective sensemaking in this way, practitioners used a conceptualization of 'event time' (Patriotta & Gruber, 2015) by imagining how future events -incidents -might unfold during the next bushfire season. Patriotta & Gruber (2015: 1576 show how event time occurs in a newsroom as unplanned events are mapped against shared baseline expectations about the temporal progression of planned events. When deviations from the expected occur, collective understandings are updated in order that practitioners can Our study thus contributes to the development of more complex appreciations of temporality in sensemaking research, which tends to divide up time and assume that the past is replaced by the present.…”

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Post-Inquiry Sensemaking: The Case of the ‘Black Saturday’ Bushfires

Dwyer

Hardy

Maguire

2020

Organization Studies

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We examine post-inquiry sensemaking by emergency management practitioners following an inquiry into the most damaging bushfire disaster in Australia’s history. We theorize a model of post-inquiry sensemaking with four distinct but overlapping phases during which sensemaking becomes more prospective over time. In addition to providing important insights into what has, hitherto, been a neglected arena for sensemaking studies, i.e. post-inquiry sensemaking, we contribute to the understanding of sensemaking more generally. Specifically, we show the complex nature of the relationship between sensemaking and equivocality, explain how multiple frames enhance sensemaking, and explore temporality in sensemaking over time.

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Post-Inquiry Sensemaking: The Case of the ‘Black Saturday’ Bushfires

Dwyer

Hardy

Maguire

2020

Organization Studies

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“…These detective stories support a narrative structure for making sense of equivocal happenings. In other words, the time sequence of the narrative – a chronicle of activities – provides a powerful heuristic device for sensemaking (also see Patriotta and Gruber ).…”

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Concepts of Time and Temporality in the Storytelling and Sensemaking Literatures: A Review and Critique

Dawson

Sykes

2018

Int J Management Reviews

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A considerable body of literature exists on narratives and stories in explaining how individuals and groups make and give sense to their experiences in organizations. Classic Aristotelian narratives with a linear time structure (stories with a beginning, middle and end) are prominent in the storytelling literature, whereas retrospection, in drawing on the past in making sense of the present, is a temporal modality central to foundational concepts of sensemaking. In examining time and temporality in these related fields, the authors show how the conventional temporal sequence of a past, present and future dominates, with little consideration being given to time as a multiple rather than singular concept. The authors compare and contrast differences in the temporal aspects of mainstream theories and identify a growing interest in philosophical concepts of time. This review highlights how conventional explanations in these related fields of study are underpinned by linear conceptions of temporality (with an associated causality) and how there is growing recognition of fluidity in the way pasts and futures come together in temporal sensemaking of an emergent present. Although this movement towards explanations that engage with non‐linear modalities deepen insight, they do not explicitly address concepts of time. Time continues to receive scant attention, with temporal but ‘timeless’ theories taking precedence, ultimately constraining theoretical development. In building on this analysis, the authors characterize a range of temporal modalities from which they identify six pathways for charting out an agenda for future research in which multiple concepts of time and temporality are brought to the fore.

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“…Patriotta and Gruber (2015) offers an interesting discussion of how a news organisation deals with two different temporal flows -the planned schedule and breaking news. They argue that these two temporal flows are based on two different temporalities -clock time and event time.…”

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On the Making of Sense in Sensemaking: Decentred Sensemaking in the Meshwork of Life

Introna

2018

Organization Studies

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This paper proposes and argues for sensemaking practices as fundamentally decentred. Sensemaking has been, at least since the late 1980s, an enduring subject for organisation studies researchers, and much longer for organisational practitioners. This research tradition has, however, tended to have a particular understanding of temporality (as divisible), tended to be centred on the human sense-makers, and privileged as more valid that which can be made present, through deliberative sensemaking practices, at the expense of that which is absent, and perhaps ineffable. In short, by locating sensemaking in the deliberative sensemaking practices of humans other significant constitutive conditions of sensemaking became obscured from view. The main thrust of the paper is to develop a notion of sensemaking that is decentred -not simply at the disposal of human subjects -and where sense is always and already given and made simultaneously. That is, where every human attempt at framing is itself already enframed, significantly. We show how this reimagining of sensemaking, as decentred, has the potential to open up new avenues of research in sensemaking practices -avenues that are more sensitive to temporal flow, the more-than-human, immanence, and the precarity of such practices. This shift is significant theoretically but also practically.

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Newsmaking and Sensemaking: Navigating Temporal Transitions Between Planned and Unexpected Events

Cited by 56 publications

References 56 publications

Post-Inquiry Sensemaking: The Case of the ‘Black Saturday’ Bushfires

Post-Inquiry Sensemaking: The Case of the ‘Black Saturday’ Bushfires

Concepts of Time and Temporality in the Storytelling and Sensemaking Literatures: A Review and Critique

On the Making of Sense in Sensemaking: Decentred Sensemaking in the Meshwork of Life

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