Community ethnographies
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- Charlotte Linde, Working the Past; Narrative and Institutional Memory (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009) http://isbn.nu/9780195140293. Deep and careful observation of the story-telling practices in an insurance company originally studied at the Institute for Research on Learning. Highly recommended reading. --John Smith 17:47, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
- Andreas Lloyd: A system that Works for Me - an anthropological analysis of computer hackers’ shared use and development of the Ubuntu Linux system. http://eskar.dk/andreas/lloyd_thesis.pdf. From the introduction:
- ' Based on more than 2 years of daily use of the Ubuntu Linux system and 6 months of online and in person fieldwork among the developers working to develop and maintain it, this thesis examines the individual and collaborative daytoday practices of these developers as they relate to the computer operating system that is the result of their labour. Despite being spread across the industrialized world, these Ubuntu hackers socialise, share their knowledge, and come to depend on each other in their work across the Internet, as well as in their in person meetings at conferences and summits. I argue that these shared and negotiated online and in person practices constitute a community of practice (Wenger 1998) rooted in a more than 40year old “oral” computing tradition based on the Unix operating system which has spawned a lively interdependent online ecosystem of free software projects built on the reciprocal sharing of knowledge and source code which, guaranteed by cleverly crafted copyright licenses, has resulted in a cumulatively improved system developed openly online in a fashion which has made it a viable alternative to the mainstream IT industry. '. Presented in CPsquare's Research and dissertation fest, November, 2008. Highly recommended reading --John Smith 17:48, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
- See Wanda J. Orlikowski, Improvising organizational transformation over time: A situated change perspective in Organizations and KM
- See conclusion to Ben Sims' dissertation in Cases in other settings
