Working papers:
Socio-Technologies of Assembly: Sense-Making and Demonstration in Rebuilding Lower Manhattan
Monique Girard; David C. Stark
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- Title:
- Socio-Technologies of Assembly: Sense-Making and Demonstration in Rebuilding Lower Manhattan
- Author(s):
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Girard, Monique
Stark, David C. - Date:
- 2005
- Type:
- Working papers
- Department:
- Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy
- Permanent URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:9681
- Series:
- ISERP Working Papers
- Part Number:
- 05-09
- Publisher:
- Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Columbia University
- Publisher Location:
- New York
- Abstract:
- This paper examines how New Yorkers reshaped the public sphere as they engaged in a series of self-organized, loosely coordinated efforts to collectively make sense of the challenges they faced in responding and recovering from the attack of 9/11. The authors explore how technologies of deliberation, representation, and demonstration were mobilized to widen the scope and diversify the organizational strategies enabling public participation. Drawing on Dewey's philosophy of pragmatism and the social studies of science, they focus on how disparate socio-technologies of assembly offered different affordances that both enabled and inhibited particular discursive practices and forms of collective inquiry.
- Subject(s):
- Social research
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- 131