TY - GEN
T1 - Towards professionalization in an online community of emerging occupation
T2 - 2018 ACM Conference on Supporting Groupwork, GROUP 2018
AU - Kou, Yubo
AU - Gray, Colin M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2018/1/7
Y1 - 2018/1/7
N2 - The occupational landscape of the digital economy is rapidly changing, resulting in the emergence of multidisciplinary occupations. Emerging occupations such as user experience (UX) design are in high demand, but these occupations lack clear boundaries and have yet to develop into a profession with a specified, coherent body of knowledge. While traditional occupations such as medicine and law successfully claimed their professional jurisdiction and high social power and status long before the Internet, how do these emerging occupations work towards professionalization, particularly as they are increasingly supported by and through online communities? In this paper, we investigate an online UX community to understand how UX practitioners specify their occupational knowledge and professional boundaries. Using this case as an example and provocation, we discuss how online communities support the emergence of new occupations and may play an indispensable role in modern day patterns of professionalization.
AB - The occupational landscape of the digital economy is rapidly changing, resulting in the emergence of multidisciplinary occupations. Emerging occupations such as user experience (UX) design are in high demand, but these occupations lack clear boundaries and have yet to develop into a profession with a specified, coherent body of knowledge. While traditional occupations such as medicine and law successfully claimed their professional jurisdiction and high social power and status long before the Internet, how do these emerging occupations work towards professionalization, particularly as they are increasingly supported by and through online communities? In this paper, we investigate an online UX community to understand how UX practitioners specify their occupational knowledge and professional boundaries. Using this case as an example and provocation, we discuss how online communities support the emergence of new occupations and may play an indispensable role in modern day patterns of professionalization.
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U2 - 10.1145/3148330.3148352
DO - 10.1145/3148330.3148352
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85054809093
SN - 9781450355629
T3 - Proceedings of the International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work
SP - 322
EP - 334
BT - GROUP 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Supporting Groupwork
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 7 January 2018 through 10 January 2018
ER -