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Shifting needs for expertise: Digitized taskscapes in the Norwegian oil and gas industry
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NOR. (Department of Social Anthropology)ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7394-2646
2019 (English)In: The Extractive Industries and Society, ISSN 2214-790X, E-ISSN 2214-7918, Vol. 6, no 2, p. 454-462Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article assesses the shaping of expertise within a small Norwegian firm distributing digital services to the global oil and gas industry. The oil price drop of 2014 shifted firm priorities from creating consulting reports about reliability of resource extracting operations to developing business intelligence software for oil and gas corporations. Drawing on data from ethnographic fieldwork, I seek to trace the transformation of knowledge practices within the intermediary. The investigation reveals that the taskscapes of the firm's consultants and sales persons were increasingly directed toward interfaces, establishing new techniques of mediation between employees and clients. I argue that the researched firm underwent a successful transition toward the production of software because of its ability to locally transfer knowledge on its software among its internal professional groups. 

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Elsevier, 2019. Vol. 6, no 2, p. 454-462
Keywords [en]
Digital infrastructure, Digital labor, Expertise, Extractive technologies, Interface, Norway, Oil and gas industry, Skill, Software
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Social Anthropology Media Studies
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Media and Communication Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-94093DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2019.03.006ISI: 000466795300020Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85063152203OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-94093DiVA, id: diva2:1748119
Available from: 2023-04-01 Created: 2023-04-01 Last updated: 2023-04-12Bibliographically approved

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