What is it about?
It is about how sensemaking can be understood as a distributed and sociomaterial practice, rather than as a cognitive and episodic activity.
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Why is it important?
The paper outlines a view of sensemaking that incorporates the material -- artifacts, or "stuff". This is very timely and important in a world that increasingly relies on technologies and where technology use is ubiquitous for many of us. The papers shows that sensemaking is not something that is confined to humans -- it is distributed.
Perspectives
Lotta Hultin, who is the first author of this paper, deserves a huge amount of credit for her crisp and deep thinking about the issues the paper addresses, and her ability to see the theory in the empirical material.
Prof. Magnus Mähring
Stockholm School of Economics
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This page is a summary of: How practice makes sense in healthcare operations: Studying sensemaking as performative, material-discursive practice, Human Relations, August 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0018726716661618.
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