The concept of knowledge workers and knowledge management is an area of interest. These terms have been applied both to corporate production and education.

The Second Nordic Workshop on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning and Knowledge Empowerment Reprt includes a paper relating to this area.

'Knowledge Workers - Skills Needed in ICT and New Media Companies in Future' Martilla, L et al 2000.

Kotamraju has investigated the notion of skill and subsequently issues of gender in new media work. See ref below.

Ros Gill at the LSE has also looked into these issues. See ref below.

Nalini P. Kotamraju (2003) 'Art versus Code: The Gendered Evolution of Web Design Skills' in Howard, P. N. and Jones, S. eds. Society Online London: Sage chap. 12. Available November 2003.

Project Based New Media Work Ros Gill 2001 (doc)


See also:
New Media: Working Practices in Electronic Arts An Online mini-site relating to a research project on new media workers. This site includes a pdf of the findings from the research:

'New Media: Working Practices in Electronic Arts' Gill, R. and Dodd, D. 2000.

In addition to research into theoretical approaches to my subject area I also need to collect research on how the new media and new media workers have developed. Part of this research is into the notions of skill and creativity. Revelant refs include:

Kotamraju, N.P. (2001) Keeping Up: Web Design Skill and the Reinvented worker, Information Communication and Society 5(1) 1-26.

Banks, M. et al (2002) Where the Art is: Defining and Managing Creativity in New Media SMEs, Creativity and Innovation Management 11 (4) 255-264

This blog will act as a record of my research development for my research topic above. My current research area is activity theory. This allows for the analysis of tangible activitites through artifacts and tools. These tools could be physical and perhaps conceptual. Relevant refs include:

Activity Theory and System Design:M A View from the Trenches Collins, P., Shukla, S., and Redmiles, D. 2002

Physical and Virtual Tools: Activity Theory Applied to the Design of Groupware Fjeld, M. et al 2002

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