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Knowledge Management 2009

Course 5

Tim Hoogenboom & Bolke de Bruin

http://www.timhoogenboom.nl



Contents of Today

• Recapitulating last week

• About Identity

• Understanding how an identity is constituted and how it is formed

• Relevance of Identity

• Assignment



Wrapping it up



Community

• In order to structure a practice a social configuration is needed

• Communities of Practice are constituted under the force of– Mutuality of engagement: Constructing and reproducing the

relationships (often called memberships) for doing things together.

– Joint enterprise: shared objective negotiated by its participants to deal with a situation as they experience it.

– Shared repertoire: Resources for negotiation of meaning that a community has adopted during its existence, and which have become part of its practice



Practices create

• Meaning

• Social configurations (Communities of Practice)

• Learning

• Boundaries

• Locality



Relevancy PBA

• Practice Based Approach (PBA)

• Practice situated in middle of structure and agency extremes– Structure (Objectivism, functionalism, positivism)– Agency (Subjectivism, symbolic interactionism, pragmatism)

• In search for middle way: – Giddens’ structuration theory, Latour’s actor-network theory,

Wenger’s practice based approach– Think of organizational reconstitutions



Identity



About Identity

• Shifting focus from how people engage (practice) to how people become (identity) in order to learn

• Identity is “the negotiation of meaning of our memberships in social communities […] that constitutes both the individual as the community” (p.145)

• Identity in social psychology seen as self-image, definition Wenger is broader.

• Identity is what we are, what we want to be, or what we want to become and does not has to reflect reality

(see Goffman on frontstage and backstage)



Producing our identity

• We produce our identity through the duality of – Participation– Non-participation

• Designing for marginality and peripherality to affect identity formation



Making sense of identity

• Three distinct modes of belonging to make sense of process of identity formation



Identity formation

• Next to having an identity and identifying yourself with it, your identity is also formed by the ability to negotiate meanings

• Identity formation is dual process between– Identification: Who or what we identity with by creating bonds

or distinctions in which we become invested– Negotiability: Determines the degree to which we have control

over the meanings in which we are invested



Identity integrated



Social processes shaping ID• Identity as negotiated experience: We define who we are by the ways we

experience ourselves through participation as well as by the ways we and others reify ourselves

• Identity as community membership: We define who we are by the familiar and the unfamiliar

• Identity as learning trajectory: We define who we are by where we have been and where we are going, a “constant becoming”

• Identity as nexus of multi-membership: We define who we are by the ways we reconcile our various forms of membership into one identity

• Identity as a relation between the local and the global: We define who we are by negotiating local ways of belonging to broader constellations and of manifesting broader styles and discourses



Social processes practice vs ID

Practice as…• Negotiation of meaning (in

terms of participation and reification)

• Community• Shared history of learning• Boundary and landscape• Constellations

Identity as…• Negotiated experience of self

(in terms of participation and reification)

• Membership• Learning trajectory• Nexus of multi-membership• Belonging defined globally but

experienced locally



Relevancy Identity or what do we miss in social software

• Identity is still seen as static self-image, see social networking sites

• Social media still consider engaging in relations (which are rather associations) and constructing identity as separate items

• Where is the social media that helps me in my trajectories, multimembership.

• What about the ‘fakesters’ on ‘friendster’ … intended or unintended consequence



Assignment

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