Merchant Marine Deck Officer Agency Through Performative Acts

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dc.contributor.authorClark, Donalden
dc.contributor.committeechairSchmid, Sonjaen
dc.contributor.committeechairBrown, Shannon A.en
dc.contributor.committeememberAbbate, Janet E.en
dc.contributor.committeememberAllen, Barbara L.en
dc.contributor.departmentScience and Technology in Societyen
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-07T08:00:16Zen
dc.date.available2016-09-07T08:00:16Zen
dc.date.issued2016-09-06en
dc.description.abstractI bring together ethnographic interviews with deck officers, studies in actor-network theory, explicit and tacit knowledge theory, and performativity theory in this work. I prove that bridge technologies produce what are called mimeomorphic (repeatable with some variation) actions that contain no deck officer collective tacit knowledge. I argue that deck officer bridge watch situated actions are mostly polimorphic (actions can vary depending on social context), and these actions are in fact performatives (in an Austin sense) derived from a more oral than literate performance production process. These performatives constantly build the mariner's identity within the maritime deck officer community and their successful performatives give deck officers agency in the form of an oppositional view to deskilling. These same performative acts are the value of the mariner's experiential technological knowledge within the ship's bridge technology framework.en
dc.description.degreePh. D.en
dc.format.mediumETDen
dc.identifier.othervt_gsexam:8758en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/72884en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectActor-network Theoryen
dc.subjectTacit Knowledgeen
dc.subjectCommedia Del'Arteen
dc.subjectDeskillingen
dc.subjectECDISen
dc.subjectExperiential Technical Knowledgeen
dc.subjectMarine Navigationen
dc.subjectMerchant M Deck Officeren
dc.subjectMimeomorphicen
dc.subjectPerformative Acten
dc.subjectPerformativityen
dc.subjectPolimorphicen
dc.subjectSituated Actionen
dc.titleMerchant Marine Deck Officer Agency Through Performative Actsen
dc.typeDissertationen
thesis.degree.disciplineScience and Technology Studiesen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.leveldoctoralen
thesis.degree.namePh. D.en

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