Academic Prototyping as a Method of Knowledge Production: The Case of the Dynamic Table of Contexts | Zendy

Stan Ruecker | Zendy; Nadine Adelaar | Zendy; Susan Brown | Zendy; Teresa Dobson | Zendy; Ruth Knechtel | Zendy; Susan Liepert | Zendy; Andrew MacDonald | Zendy; Ernesto Peña | Zendy; Milena Radzikowska | Zendy; Geoff G. Roeder | Zendy; Stéfan Sinclair | Zendy; Jennifer Windsor | Zendy

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Academic Prototyping as a Method of Knowledge Production: The Case of the Dynamic Table of Contexts

Author(s) -

Stan Ruecker,

Nadine Adelaar,

Susan Brown,

Teresa Dobson,

Ruth Knechtel,

Susan Liepert,

Andrew MacDonald,

Ernesto Peña,

Milena Radzikowska,

Geoff G. Roeder,

Stéfan Sinclair,

Jennifer Windsor

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

scholarly and research communication

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1923-0702

DOI - 10.22230/src.2014v5n2a158

Subject(s) - table (database) , computer science , focus (optics) , process (computing) , production (economics) , rapid prototyping , ethnography , knowledge management , engineering ethics , sociology , software engineering , engineering , programming language , database , mechanical engineering , physics , anthropology , optics , economics , macroeconomics

Academic prototyping, like ethnography or bench studies, is a way of producing new knowledge about an idea. It is a phase in a critical process. In fact, it is perhaps better to speak of academic prototyping, rather than of academic prototypes. In this paper, as an example, we discuss the Dynamic Table of Contexts, an academic prototyping project that has served for many years as a focus of ideas about what it means to remediate and improve on a venerable print tradition.

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