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| Visual Communication 9, 4 (2010) 441-462 |
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| Placing Subway Signs: Practical Properties of Signs at Work |
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| Jérôme Denis 1David Pontille 2, 3 |
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| (2010) |
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| This article complements previous studies stressing the importance of the emplacement of signs in public spaces by focusing on the placement process itself. The authorsʼ ethnographic study of the Paris subway shows that the way-finding system operates in a process of graphical ordering within which the standardized shape, content and emplacement of each sign are crucial. However, the placement work does not simply consist of following instructions. The authors show that, in order to find the proper place for boards, stickers and posters, workers have to explore the environment and reconcile the sign placement policy with the ecology of the local sites. In doing so, workers do not just discover an emplacement designated for a particular sign but enact an available place, mobilizing numerous embodied practices. During this process, signs themselves are not treated as stabilized entities; they oscillate between what the authors term ʻpractical propertiesʼ that arise from the combination of objects, bodies and environment. |
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| 1 : | Laboratoire Traitement et Communication de l'Information [Paris] (LTCI) |
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Télécom ParisTech – CNRS : UMR5141 |
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| 2 : | Anthropologie de l'Ecriture/Equipe IIAC |
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École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales [EHESS] – CNRS : UMR8177 |
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| 3 : | Institut Interdisciplinaire d'Anthropologie du Contemporain (IIAC) |
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CNRS : UMR8177 – École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales [EHESS] |
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| Discipline | : | Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Sociologie Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Sciences de l'information et de la communication |
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| Ecology – Ethnography – Placement Work – Pragmatics – Subway Signs |
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| Contributeur : Jérôme Denis | |
| Soumis le : Lundi 3 Janvier 2011, 09:57:31 | |
| Dernière modification le : Lundi 3 Janvier 2011, 10:08:43 | |
