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Goldsmiths' College
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Article title
Expectation and Mobilisation: Enacting Future Users
Type
D - Journal article
Title of journal
Science, Technology & Human Values
Article number
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Volume number
34
Issue number
4
First page of article
502
ISSN of journal
01622439
Year of publication
2009
Number of additional authors
1
Additional information
This research takes a performative approach to discourse analysis to examine how the ‘user’ is deployed by the UK think tank Demos to inform government policy. The research contributes to the sociology of expectations and user studies by exploring how existing and future representations of users portray the multiple futures of location-based technology. Two key narrative patterns are identified including the bifurcation of the social and the technological as domains for policy action and their recombination as future visions. Preliminary research was presented at the joint 4S/EAAST conference 2008 (Rotterdam) and the 2007 conference ‘Negotiation the Future’, University of Oslo.
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Cross-referral requested
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Proposed double-weighted
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