Conceptualizing Listening as Voice and Invitation to Hospitable Dialogue in Collaborative Processes

• In Event: Voices, Voicing, and Organizing

Abstract

Most extant scholarship on collaboration addresses communicative acts in some way, and a small but growing vein of literature centers on dialogic practices in collaboration processes. However, there are few conceptual much less theoretical resources in extant scholarship on collaboration that address listening. In this paper we aim to: 1) highlight ways that listening has been overlooked in key veins of scholarship on collaboration; 2) bring listening theory from other scholarly domains to bear on collaboration; 3) propose an expanded conceptualization of listening as communicative act, voice, and invitation to hospitable dialogue; and 4) illustrate how this expanded conceptualization enhances analysis of collaborative practices.

Authors

• Elizabeth S Parks, Colorado State University

• Kirsten Foot, University of Washington