Temporal orientations in human agency: a case of homecare practitioners as mobile phone users

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• What: The analysis of the ethnographic material was focused on situational and long-term temporal orientations of the care practitioners related to technologizing care. The authors examine how temporality aspect and particularly the short- and long-term temporal orientations are conceptualized in theories of human agency (by Emirbayer and Mische, 1998), and practicebased approach, namely "technology-in-practice" (by Orlikowski, 2000). The study explores empirically the variety of the human agencies in old age care work with the help of the defined theoretical conceptualizations in three ways: how care practitioners see their relationship with mobile technologies in . . .
  

   

  

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