Mike asks,
> Eugene, why call test results a boundary object instead of an artifact
> or a tool? What does the shift in vocabulary entail?
> mike
Because I'm interested in how people use tests to promote and negotiate
specific social relations. I'm not interested in a mediated or artifact
nature of tests (i.e., I'm not interested in instrumentalism). I'd more
like to involve terms like discourse but I'm happy with boundary objects.
Tests have different meanings for parties involve but they help to
coordinate and negotiate these meanings.
What do you think?
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Hi EM-- So boundary objects do not involve agency? I am not trying
to be difficult. I like the idea of boundary object. But when/how/
why do we distinguish boundary objects (is there a boundary object
which is not an artifact) from other artifacts, some of which we
call tools (in my crimped view, a subset of artifacts)? How are
we to distinguish/when the expressive and instrumental aspects of
mediated action?
Maybe one way to gain greater co-understanding here is to figure out
what boundary objects are not artifacts and when boundary objects are
involved in human interaction where no instrumentality is involved?
Maybe?
mike
Eugene
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