Dariusz Jemielniak

The Great English-Polish Dictionary

Aleksandra Przegalinska

How networked technology enables the emergence of a new collaborative society. Humans are hard-wired for collaboration, and new technologies of communication act as a super-amplifier of our natural collaborative mindset. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series examines the emergence of a new kind of social collaboration enabled by networked technologies. This new collaborative society might be characterized as a series of services and startups that enable peer-to-peer exchanges and interactions though technology. Some believe that the economic aspects of the new collaboration have the potential to make society more equitable; others see collaborative communities based on sharing as a cover for social injustice and user exploitation. The book covers the “sharing economy,” and the hijacking of the term by corporations; different models of peer production, and motivations to participate; collaborative media production and consumption, the definitions of “amateur” and “professional,” and the power of memes; hactivism and social movements, including Anonymous and anti-ACTA protest; collaborative knowledge creation, including citizen science; collaborative self-tracking; and internet-mediated social relations, as seen in the use of Instagram, Snapchat, and Tinder. Finally, the book considers the future of these collaborative tendencies and the disruptions caused by fake news, bots, and other challenges.

Collaborative Society

Malgorzata Ciesielska

This book provides a thorough review of tested qualitative methods often used in organization studies, and outlines the challenges and essential requirements of designing a qualitative research project. The methods examined include case studies, observation, interviewing and the repertory grid technique. By highlighting certain key ‘rules’ for carrying out qualitative research and describing issues that should be avoided, this second volume of Qualitative Methodologies in Organization Studies is essential reading for academics and researchers who wish to understand the current state of qualitative data gathering within organization studies. Those exploring organization studies will find this two-volume collection extremely valuable as it contains robust contributions from highly-skilled authors who are actively researching in this field.

Volume II: Methods and Possibilities

Qualitative Methodologies in Organization Studies

Lewis Carroll

Marta Fihel

Grzegorz Komerski

Alice in Wonderland

The social sciences are becoming datafied. The questions once considered the domain of sociologists are now answered by data scientists operating on large datasets and breaking with methodological tradition, for better or worse. The traditional social sciences, such as sociology or anthropology, are under the double threat of becoming marginalized or even irrelevant, both from new methods of research which require more computational skills and from increasing competition from the corporate world which gains an additional advantage based on data access. However, unlike data scientists, sociologists and anthropologists have a long history of doing qualitative research. The more quantified datasets we have, the more difficult it is to interpret them without adding layers of qualitative interpretation. Big Data therefore needs Thick Data. This book presents the available arsenal of new methods and tools for studying society both quantitatively and qualitatively, opening ground for the social sciences to take the lead in analysing digital behaviour. It shows that Big Data can and should be supplemented and interpreted through thick data as well as cultural analysis. Thick Big Data is critically important for students and researchers in the social sciences to understand the possibilities of digital analysis, both in the quantitative and qualitative area, and to successfully build mixed-methods approaches.

Doing Digital Social Sciences

Thick Big Data

H. G. Wells

The Time Machine

Jane Austen

Duma i Uprzedzenie

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

Lucy Maud Montgomery

The Blue Castle

Ponieważ z Internetu korzystają miliardy osób, mamy współcześnie możliwość śledzenia siły wpływu nawet bardzo drobnych czynników, których normalnie nie dałoby się dostrzec – z racji zbyt małych prób. Możemy na przykład na podstawie zmienionych wzorców komunikacji on-line dość skutecznie estymować, że ktoś jest bezrobotny. Można też zaobserwować godzinne zmiany w nastroju populacji, porównywać reakcje na ból głowy czy alkohol w różnych kulturach na podstawie samej tylko analizy publicznych tweetów. Nawet surowe dane, jeśli opierają się na bardzo dużych próbach, mogą stanowić ciekawy punkt wyjścia do dalszych badań. Przykładowo jeden z najpopularniejszych serwisów pornograficznych na świecie i 22. pod względem popularności serwis w ogóle, Pornhub, publikuje co roku raport na temat wykorzystania witryny. [Fragment książki] Nie ulega wątpliwości, że Internet – sieć sieci – ma ogromne znaczenie dla większości współczesnych zjawisk społecznych i jest obecnie w wielu dyscyplinach nauki jedną z najważniejszych przestrzeni badawczych. Pilne staje się więc nie tylko systematyczne, rzetelne przeanalizowanie sposobów korzystania z sieci, ale i społeczności, jakie się w niej tworzą, czy wytworów kultury sieciowej. Socjologia Internetu prof. Dariusza Jemielniaka znakomicie odpowiada na tę potrzebę. dr Dominik Batorski Praca jest gęstym w myśli studium o socjologii Internetu. Jest zarazem pracą ogromnie erudycyjną, ale ta erudycyjność nie jest celem samym w sobie, lecz funkcją wyjaśniania bardzo złożonej materii […]. Autor wplata do narracji własne doświadczenia badawcze, wskazuje na ważne, interesujące obszary wymagające dalszych badań […], oferuje porady metodyczne, informuje o ryzyku, przestrzega przed pułapkami […], kreśli najważniejsze wymogi etyczne. z recenzji wydawniczej dr. hab., prof. Uniwersytetu SWPS Kazimierza Krzysztofka Książka jest ważnym przyczynkiem do rozwoju wiedzy o komunikacji i zjawiskach występujących w Internecie i oddziałujących poprzez Internet. Praca dostarcza cennej wiedzy o metodach badawczych Internetu i fenomenów tam funkcjonujących. Jest niezbędną lekturą dla badaczy Internetu i osób zainteresowanych naukowym podejściem do jego rozumienia. z recenzji wydawniczej prof. dr. hab. Krzysztofa Koneckiego

Socjologia internetu

praca w przedsiębiorstwach wiedzy na przykładzie organizacji high-tech

Praca oparta na wiedzy

'The knowledge worker is a welcome addition to the ethnographic investigation of high-tech work. The author's thoughtful comparative approach, contrasting the oft-studied American knowledge workers with their less familiar Polish counterparts, offers a refreshing take on the post industrial workplace and demonstrates once again the profound changes that high-tech work has made in the nature of work, the worker and the workplace, far beyond Silicon Valley.' Gideon Kunda, Tel Aviv University, Israel 'The body of research addressing knowledge-intensive and creative work is massive and is quickly growing, but Dariusz Jemielniak manages to bring some new issues and perspectives to the table in his carefully designed study of the Polish and American computer programming community, making concepts such as time, trust, and motivation constitutive elements of contemporary knowledge work. Being able to bring together ethnographic research and organization theory and social science more broadly, The New Knowledge Workers is a significant contribution to the understanding of contemporary working life in the so-called "knowledge society".' Alexander Styhre, University of Gothenburg, Sweden 'Jemielniak's book combines detailed comparative ethnographic observations with organizational analysis to highlight how little we actually know about the operations of knowledge-intensive organizations. Arguing that ancient commonplaces about a "greener", more egalitarian, post-Taylorist future rely on ignoring real-time observations of real people in context, Jemielniak's portrait of the knowledge society of the 21st century shows it to be more like the Fordist society of the 20th century than the utopia so many futurists choose to imagine. His book tells us it is time to begin observing again if we wish to "know" rather than "believe" what the future holds for us.' Davydd J. Greenwood, Cornell University, US This critical ethnographic study of knowledge workers and knowledge-intensive organization workplaces focuses on the issues of timing and schedules, the perception of formality and trust and distrust in software development as well as motivation and occupational identity among software engineers. The book is a cross-cultural, comparative study of American and European high-tech workplaces that addresses the issues currently of interest to both Academia and to practice and provides a rare international comparison of organizations from both sides of the Atlantic. Its conclusions shed new light on the problems typical for software projects. The book specifically focuses on, and gives voice to, the perspectives of knowledge workers rather than managers and will thus be useful to not only scholars and human resource managers from software companies, but also to high-tech professionals. Scholars and professionals in organization studies, management, HRM, innovation and knowledge management will find this book engaging and enlightening.

The New Knowledge Workers

Charles Dickens

Opowiesc wigilijna z angielskim

With an emphasis on peer–produced content and collaboration, Wikipedia exemplifies a departure from traditional management and organizational models. This iconic "project" has been variously characterized as a hive mind and an information revolution, attracting millions of new users even as it has been denigrated as anarchic and plagued by misinformation. Have Wikipedia's structure and inner workings promoted its astonishing growth and enduring public relevance? In Common Knowledge?, Dariusz Jemielniak draws on his academic expertise and years of active participation within the Wikipedia community to take readers inside the site, illuminating how it functions and deconstructing its distinctive organization. Against a backdrop of misconceptions about its governance, authenticity, and accessibility, Jemielniak delivers the first ethnography of Wikipedia, revealing that it is not entirely at the mercy of the public: instead, it balances open access and power with a unique bureaucracy that takes a page from traditional organizational forms. Along the way, Jemielniak incorporates fascinating cases that highlight the tug of war among the participants as they forge ahead in this pioneering environment.

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