dc.contributor.author
Schiemer, Benjamin
dc.contributor.author
Schüßler, Elke
dc.contributor.author
Theel, Tobias
dc.date.accessioned
2023-04-12T07:35:51Z
dc.date.available
2023-04-12T07:35:51Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/38105
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-37818
dc.description.abstract
Creative collaboration often takes place in collaborative spaces that increasingly use virtual modes of interaction. To better understand the organizational conditions and organizing practices that facilitate collaboration in such spaces, we compare ethnographies of an online platform for collaborative songwriting and a physical songwriting camp, with each of these spatial settings coming with distinct advantages and disadvantages for creative collaboration. We identify the emergence of copresence – an active mutual orientation toward one another – as a common organizational condition for collaboration. Copresence was fostered by practices of regulating nimbus (i.e. making people more or less visible) and focus (i.e. directing attention to others) that not only stimulated moments of converging copresence marked by collaborative problem-solving, but also enabled diverging copresence marked by undirected attention and more serendipitous interactions. Our comparison reveals the challenges of negotiating between converging and diverging copresence to counteract tendencies towards excessive, or conversely, insufficient nimbus and focus of the participants, both of which are barriers to copresence. These insights contribute to ongoing debates about the organization of online and offline collaborative spaces by shifting the focus away from co-location towards copresence, highlighting the oscillation between converging and diverging copresence as important for a collaborative atmosphere and identifying practices by which copresence can be organized in different spatial settings.
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dc.format.extent
24 Seiten
dc.rights.uri
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject
collaboration
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dc.subject
creative industries
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dc.subject
distributed work
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dc.subject.ddc
300 Sozialwissenschaften::330 Wirtschaft::330 Wirtschaft
dc.title
Regulating Nimbus and Focus: Organizing Copresence for Creative Collaboration
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.1177/01708406221094201
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle
Organization Studies
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.number
4
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart
545
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend
568
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume
44
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406221094201
refubium.affiliation
Wirtschaftswissenschaft
refubium.affiliation.other
Betriebswirtschaftslehre / Management-Department

refubium.resourceType.isindependentpub
no
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access
dcterms.isPartOf.eissn
1741-3044
refubium.resourceType.provider
WoS-Alert