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100 _aAnteby, Michel and Holm, Audrey L.
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245 _aTranslating expertise across work contexts: U.S puppeteers move from stage to screen
260 _aAmerican Sociological Review
300 _a86(2), Apr, 2021: p.310-340
520 _aExpertise is a key currency in today’s knowledge economy. Yet as experts increasingly move across work contexts, how expertise translates across contexts is less well understood. Here, we examine how a shift in context—which reorders the relative attention experts pay to distinct types of audiences—redefines what it means to be an expert. Our study’s setting is an established expertise in the creative industry: puppet manipulation. Through an examination of U.S. puppeteers’ move from stage to screen (i.e., film and television), we show that, although the two settings call on mostly similar techniques, puppeteers on stage ground their claims to expertise in a dialogue with spectators and view expertise as achieving believability; by contrast, puppeteers on screen invoke the need to deliver on cue when dealing with producers, directors, and co-workers and view expertise as achieving task mastery. When moving between stage and screen, puppeteers therefore prioritize the needs of certain audiences over others’ and gradually reshape their own views of expertise. Our findings embed the nature of expertise in experts’ ordering of types of audiences to attend to and provide insights for explaining how expertise can shift and become co-opted by workplaces. – Reproduced
650 _aExpertise, Audiences, Puppetry, Film and television.
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773 _aAmerican Sociological Review
906 _aFILM AND TELEVISION
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