@article{ref1,
title="Assembling collaboration space: maps in practice during search and rescue efforts in northern Norway",
journal="Safety science",
year="2023",
author="Popovaitė, Virginija",
volume="164",
number="",
pages="e106186-e106186",
abstract="Rescue services in Norway are based on collaboration between private, public, and volunteer sectors. Digital mapping platforms serve as a support tool for those involved in a search and rescue (SAR) operation. However, they lack interoperability and pose practical challenges to the responders. This research is situated in New Materialism, which focuses on interactions between heterogenous material-semiotic actors. Therefore, I analyze digital maps as assemblages constituted through practices. I deconstruct the &quot;black box&quot; of maps: investigate how maps are assembled for SAR operations, zooming in on what these assemblages can offer for efficiency of collaboration during an effort, especially when (dis-)connecting different localities. By doing so, I trace the interactions contributing to or disrupting cross-organizational capacity for collaboration during a SAR effort. The database for this study is formed from 15 semi-structured interviews with 13 people who are related to volunteer services, police, JRCC, and map modeling in Northern Norway, and supplemented by informal conversations, observations, and complementary documents analysis. <br><br>FINDINGS reveal that digital maps can function as assembling or disassembling platforms for a coordinated rescue action while contributing to information sharing, decision making and situational awareness. This article demonstrates that maps are intrinsic to cross-organizational collaboration, and are interlinked with available infrastructure, training procedures, funding, regulations, and other socio-material aspects. Change in one of these nodes can have inadvertent consequences for the operational capacity of rescue services. Having mapped-out constellations can help trace how they are affected when implementing a change in the use of maps during SAR operations.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0925-7535",
doi="10.1016/j.ssci.2023.106186",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2023.106186"
}