Working with or next to each other? Boundary crossing in the field of information visualisation
| Autor: | Yael de Haan, Laura Buijs, Gerard Smit |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
| Předmět: |
Engineering
Knowledge management business.industry information visualisation Infographic infographics Boundary crossing multi-skilled journalists Data science Field (computer science) lcsh:P87-96 lcsh:Communication. Mass media Trading zones Information visualization case study Data visualization Work (electrical) computational thinking newsroom studies trading zone Production (economics) business boundary crossing Data visualisation |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Media Innovations, Vol 1, Iss 2 (2014) The Journal of Media Innovations, 1(2), 36-51 |
| ISSN: | 1894-5562 |
| Popis: | Due to the need to present information in a fast and attractive way, organizations are eager to use information visualisations. This study explores the collision between the different experts involved in the production of these visualisations using the model of trading zones supplemented with the learning mechanisms found in the boundary crossing literature. Results show that that there is not one single good solution to effective interdisciplinary cooperation in the field of information visualisation. Rather, all four types of cooperation that we distinguish – enforced, dominated, fractionated, and attuned – might work well, as long as they are adapted to the situation and the participants accept the constraints of the specific cooperation type they are engaged in. In any case the involved experts and initiators have to understand and incorporate approaches that enhance the cocreative, iterative nature of the production process. In surveying the different forms of collaboration we detect two major forms of trading zones: the one that encompasses the collaboration between an external client and a designer (external trading zone) and the trading zones within an organization between content producer and designer (internal trading zone). Both mechanisms of identifying each other’s expertise and coordinating the different tasks in the production process seem beneficial for the production process. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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