Præsentation til Forskningensdøgn 2009: Novo NordiskCharles Seger
My presentation (in Danish) for The Research Festival 2009, where I talked about social navigation and folksonomies in organizations. I was lucky enough to be invited to present at Novo Nordisk.
Præsentation til Forskningensdøgn 2009: Novo NordiskCharles Seger
My presentation (in Danish) for The Research Festival 2009, where I talked about social navigation and folksonomies in organizations. I was lucky enough to be invited to present at Novo Nordisk.
Slides til introgang for masterfagpakken Webkommunikation og Sociale Medier, It-vest, Au, Arts, Center for undervisningsudvikling og digitale medier v. ekstern lektor, Nicholai Friis Pedersen
Oplæg for Innovationskonsulenter 16.december 2009 samt 2. februar 2010. Portejøjle og projektstyrring på Hovedbiblioteket i Århus, en professionel ramme for projektarbejde.
Læring og vidensdeling i wikibaserede praksisfællesskabermeyler
Konkurrenceevne handler i dag i høj grad om at sikre den optimale anvendelse af viden i organisationen. Flere undersøgelser viser, at medarbejdere i organisationer foretrækker at tilegne sig viden på uformel vis. Kun 20 % af den viden der tilegnes sker gennem traditionelle og formelle
læringsprocesser(undervisning). Paradokssalt nok ser vi, at organisationer og e-learning virksomheder
fastholder fokus og satser de fleste ressourcer på den formelle læring. Vi har derfor stillet spørgsmålet:
Har organisationen råd til ikke at satse på de sidste 80 %, som omfatter medarbejdernes foretrukne
læringsform?
Præsentationen vil omfatte en gennemgang af de resultater, der i et specialeprojekt på IT-Universitetet i København er fremkommet
omkring uformelle læringsprocesser, vidensdeling og samarbejdsprocesser understøttet af socialt
software. Der vil blive præsenteret konkrete problemstillinger plukket ud fra udvalgte organisationers arbejdspraksis. Vi vil herunder besvare følgende spørgsmål:
Hvordan tilegner organisationens medarbejdere sig kompleks viden?
Hvordan håndterer organisationen fastholdelse og opdatering af en stadigt voksende og konstant
foranderlig viden?
Præsentationen vil også fremlægge den nye læringsteori Connectivismen, der i modsætning til de traditionelle teorier, har fokus på læring i netværk. Vi vil komme med bud på hvordan denne teori kan omsættes til konkrete løsninger understøttet af sociale software værktøjer som wikier, blogs, tagging og RSS.
LinkedIn / LinkedOut: A media field study of LinkedIn in a practice theory pe...Mathias Haugaard Jørgensen
From a user perspective and from the theoretical perspective of Medium Theory and Practice Theory, this master thesis clarifies new aspects regarding the use of LinkedIn in different domains of social life. This is done with a qualitative case-study of 14 career-minded LinkedIn users in relation to their diploma programme in process consultancy (PKU). More specifically, multiple ethnographic methods are combined including offline participatory observations, netnography, focus group interview, and individual interviews, following the participants from May until December 2014 in order get the deepest and fullest insight possible on their LinkedIn experience.
On a general level, the master thesis discovers a tension field between the new professional possibilities and potentials for communities and individuals on the one hand, and several social ambivalences and grey areas on the other.
First and foremost, the common use of a closed LinkedIn group makes LinkedIn productive, and strengthens the community of practice on the PKU with regard to knowledge sharing and shared repertoire. Besides the PKU, the participants sporadically use LinkedIn in their jobs in their own as well as their employers’ interests – seemingly, a win-win situation. Moreover, the participants continually earn career capital in terms of network and of keeping themselves informed on specific subjects or the industry and job market in general. Career capital is earned to invest when pursuing new career goals, or at least to get a good feeling that these things are possible. In total, the potentials explain LinkedIn’s growth in a Danish context as well as the dominating business perspectives in the literature. Also, the values can be seen and explained through the light of late modern social theories like the ones of Anthony Giddens, Zygmunt Baumann and Richard Sennett.
However, the very same theories might as well explain the downsides of LinkedIn use. Namely, this thesis finds that LinkedIn takes part in an information overload in everyday media practices and of the partially undesirable blending of private and professional life domains. Furthermore, the participants are restraining their LinkedIn activities due to its demanding participation and several uncertainties about how LinkedIn’s technical and social mechanisms are working – and consequently uncertainties about the effect on their professional ethos.
In this way, the thesis also offers an explanation for the low level of LinkedIn activities in comparison to the activity on other social media – and simultaneously, an explanation for the high level of lurkers and passive users on LinkedIn. In this way, it also explains why quantitative studies of the visible activities online fail to gain these insights.
In the end, possibilities of learning and especially of transformative learning are put into perspective.
Processer i forbindelse med byggeri og etablering af nye fællesskaber som inspiration til VUC processer med samlokalisering af skoleafdelinger med ny pædagogisk fokus.
Slides til introgang for masterfagpakken Webkommunikation og Sociale Medier, It-vest, Au, Arts, Center for undervisningsudvikling og digitale medier v. ekstern lektor, Nicholai Friis Pedersen
Oplæg for Innovationskonsulenter 16.december 2009 samt 2. februar 2010. Portejøjle og projektstyrring på Hovedbiblioteket i Århus, en professionel ramme for projektarbejde.
Læring og vidensdeling i wikibaserede praksisfællesskabermeyler
Konkurrenceevne handler i dag i høj grad om at sikre den optimale anvendelse af viden i organisationen. Flere undersøgelser viser, at medarbejdere i organisationer foretrækker at tilegne sig viden på uformel vis. Kun 20 % af den viden der tilegnes sker gennem traditionelle og formelle
læringsprocesser(undervisning). Paradokssalt nok ser vi, at organisationer og e-learning virksomheder
fastholder fokus og satser de fleste ressourcer på den formelle læring. Vi har derfor stillet spørgsmålet:
Har organisationen råd til ikke at satse på de sidste 80 %, som omfatter medarbejdernes foretrukne
læringsform?
Præsentationen vil omfatte en gennemgang af de resultater, der i et specialeprojekt på IT-Universitetet i København er fremkommet
omkring uformelle læringsprocesser, vidensdeling og samarbejdsprocesser understøttet af socialt
software. Der vil blive præsenteret konkrete problemstillinger plukket ud fra udvalgte organisationers arbejdspraksis. Vi vil herunder besvare følgende spørgsmål:
Hvordan tilegner organisationens medarbejdere sig kompleks viden?
Hvordan håndterer organisationen fastholdelse og opdatering af en stadigt voksende og konstant
foranderlig viden?
Præsentationen vil også fremlægge den nye læringsteori Connectivismen, der i modsætning til de traditionelle teorier, har fokus på læring i netværk. Vi vil komme med bud på hvordan denne teori kan omsættes til konkrete løsninger understøttet af sociale software værktøjer som wikier, blogs, tagging og RSS.
LinkedIn / LinkedOut: A media field study of LinkedIn in a practice theory pe...Mathias Haugaard Jørgensen
From a user perspective and from the theoretical perspective of Medium Theory and Practice Theory, this master thesis clarifies new aspects regarding the use of LinkedIn in different domains of social life. This is done with a qualitative case-study of 14 career-minded LinkedIn users in relation to their diploma programme in process consultancy (PKU). More specifically, multiple ethnographic methods are combined including offline participatory observations, netnography, focus group interview, and individual interviews, following the participants from May until December 2014 in order get the deepest and fullest insight possible on their LinkedIn experience.
On a general level, the master thesis discovers a tension field between the new professional possibilities and potentials for communities and individuals on the one hand, and several social ambivalences and grey areas on the other.
First and foremost, the common use of a closed LinkedIn group makes LinkedIn productive, and strengthens the community of practice on the PKU with regard to knowledge sharing and shared repertoire. Besides the PKU, the participants sporadically use LinkedIn in their jobs in their own as well as their employers’ interests – seemingly, a win-win situation. Moreover, the participants continually earn career capital in terms of network and of keeping themselves informed on specific subjects or the industry and job market in general. Career capital is earned to invest when pursuing new career goals, or at least to get a good feeling that these things are possible. In total, the potentials explain LinkedIn’s growth in a Danish context as well as the dominating business perspectives in the literature. Also, the values can be seen and explained through the light of late modern social theories like the ones of Anthony Giddens, Zygmunt Baumann and Richard Sennett.
However, the very same theories might as well explain the downsides of LinkedIn use. Namely, this thesis finds that LinkedIn takes part in an information overload in everyday media practices and of the partially undesirable blending of private and professional life domains. Furthermore, the participants are restraining their LinkedIn activities due to its demanding participation and several uncertainties about how LinkedIn’s technical and social mechanisms are working – and consequently uncertainties about the effect on their professional ethos.
In this way, the thesis also offers an explanation for the low level of LinkedIn activities in comparison to the activity on other social media – and simultaneously, an explanation for the high level of lurkers and passive users on LinkedIn. In this way, it also explains why quantitative studies of the visible activities online fail to gain these insights.
In the end, possibilities of learning and especially of transformative learning are put into perspective.
Processer i forbindelse med byggeri og etablering af nye fællesskaber som inspiration til VUC processer med samlokalisering af skoleafdelinger med ny pædagogisk fokus.
13. Delicious.com En Folksonomihvorbrugernekangemmeogtagge Internet bogmærker, såvelsom se andrebrugeres bogmærkerog tags. Brugernekanyderligereabonnerepåandrebrugeresbogmærker. (Delicious, 2009)