Shifting practices : reflections on technology, practice, and innovation / Giovan Francesco Lanzara.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lanzara, Giovan Francesco, 1946- author.

Series:

Acting with technology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technological innovations--Case studies.

Technological innovations.

Music--Instruction and study--Data processing.

Music--Instruction and study.

Technology--Social aspects.

Technology--Social aspects--Case studies.

Technology.

Music.

Computer music.

Video tapes in court proceedings.

Genre:

Case studies.

Computer music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 287 pages).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2016]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

What happens in an established practice or work setting when a novel artifact or tool for doing work changes the familiar work routines? Any unexpected event, or change, or technological innovation creates a discontinuity; organizations and individuals must reframe taken-for-granted assumptions and practices and reposition themselves. To study innovation as a phenomenon, then, we must search for situations of discontinuity and rupture and explore them in depth. In Shifting Practices, Giovan Francesco Lanzara does just that, and discovers that disruptions and discontinuities caused by the introduction of new technologies often reveal aspects of practice not previously observed. After discussing methodological and research issues, Lanzara presents two in-depth studies focusing on processes of design and innovation in two different practice settings: music education and criminal justice. In the first, he works with the music department of a major American university to develop Music LOGO, a computer system that allows students to explore musical structures with simple, composition-like exercises and experiments. In the second, he works with the Italian court system in the design and use of video technology for criminal trials. In both cases, drawing on anecdotes and examples as well as theory and analysis, he traces the new systems from design through implementation and adoption. Finally, Lanzara considers the researcher's role, and the relationship -- encompassing empathy, vulnerability, and temporality -- between the reflective researcher and actors in the practice setting.

Contents:

I Studying Innovation as a Phenomenon 13

1 Innovation in Practice: A Contrasted Dynamics 13

2 Processes of Design: Discontinuities, Bricolage, and Drifting 19

3 Practice and Method: A View from the Swamp 21

4 The Path in the Woods 24

5 Studying a Process of innovation as It Happens in Practice 28

6 Designing a Reflective Inquiry 34

7 First-Order and Second-Order Inquiries 38

8 Backtalk and Conversations 41

9 On Unremarkability 45

10 Theoretical Narratives 50

II Making Music in the Digital Medium: A Reflective Inquiry into the Design of a Computer Music System for Music Education 55

Introduction 57

1 Tracking the Design Process 59

1 Entering the Stage: The Computer Music Project and Its Antecedents 59

2 The Early Design Problem: Upgrading the System 61

3 Designing the Computer Music Interface 64

4 Aspects of Designing: "Entry Points" and "For Instances" 73

5 Bridging Different Worlds: Two Experiments in Self-Observation 77

6 Knowing in Terms of What One Already Knows 85

7 Learning to Make Music in the Digital Medium 87

8 The Emerging Educational Environment: New Objects, Descriptions, and Activities 91

2 The Music Faculty's Test of the System 95

1 The System's Demo 95

2 The Music Faculty's Responses 97

3 Engaging the System as a Teaching Tool and as a Medium for Composition 98

4 Making Music: Composition or Programming? 104

5 Integrating the System into the Music Curriculum 108

6 Music LOCO as a Reflective Tool 112

3 Revisitations: Shifting Stories 117

1 The Backtalk and the Generation of Further Stories 117

2 A Further Round of Backtalk: The Demo as Cooptation 125

3 Accounting for the Shift: Toward a Second-Order Inquiry 128

4 Nature and Consequences of the Reflective Move 131

5 Evolving Understandings of the Design Process 133

6 Concluding Remarks: Telling a Story of Shifting Stories 137

III Encountering Video Technology in Judicial Practice: Experiments and Inquiries in the Courtroom 141

Introduction 143

4 Entering the Temple of Justice 145

1 The Courtroom and the Criminal Trial 145

2 The VCR System and the Courtroom: Research Setting and Method 147

3 Intervention: The Observer as Enabler 148

5 Experimenting with Video Technology in the Courtroom 151

1 Hosting a Stranger: Displacement and Redesign 151

2 Early Encounters with the New Tool: Virtual Replicas, Courtroom Contingencies, and Microinterventions 152

3 Design Probes: Seeing... Making... Seeing... 158

4 Learning to Use Videos in Judicial Decision Making 160

5 Nonverbal Behavior and the Legal Relevance of Visual Cues 169

6 The VCR and the Back Office: Building "Equipmentality" 175

1 Turning the Videotape into an Administrative Object 175

2 Redesigning Microprocedures 179

3 The Magistrates' Working Habits and the Private/Public Use of the VCR 183

7 Reshaping Judicial Practice 185

1 Engaging with the Medium 186

2 Questioning the Grounds of Practical Knowledge 188

3 Reweaving the Fabric of the Practice 192

IV Further Inquiries into Shifting Practices 195

1 Two Worlds of Practice: So Distant, and Yet not Quite so Distant 195

2 Practices and Media 198

3 Making Sense of the Practice in the New Media 207

4 The Medium-Object-Representation Triad: A Digression on Mark Rothko's Color Field Painting 213

5 Transient Knowledge 217

6 Aspects of the Practice of Innovation 234.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262332309

0262332302

OCLC:

945376423

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