Network

Theorizing Knowledge Work in Telecommunications

AvClay Spinuzzi

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

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Beskrivning

How does a telecommunications company function when its right hand often doesn't know what its left hand is doing? How do rapidly expanding, interdisciplinary organizations hold together and perform their knowledge work? In this book, Clay Spinuzzi draws on two warring theories of work activity - activity theory and actor-network theory - to examine the networks of activity that make a telecommunications company work and thrive. In doing so, Spinuzzi calls a truce between the two theories, bringing them to the negotiating table to parley about work. Specifically, about net work: the coordinative work that connects, coordinates, and stabilizes polycontextual work activities. To develop this uneasy dialogue, Spinuzzi examines the texts, trades, and technologies at play at Telecorp, both historically and empirically. Drawing on both theories, Spinuzzi provides new insights into how net work actually works and how our theories and research methods can be extended to better understand it.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-09-29
Mått:152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt:470 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:242
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521895040

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Clay Spinuzzi is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Texas, Austin, where he directs the Computer Writing and Research Lab. Spinuzzi's interests include research methods and methodology, workplace research, and computer-mediated activity. Spinuzzi has received several awards for his scholarship, including the National Council of Teachers of English Best Book in Technical or Scientific Communication (2004).

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“And you thought theory was boring. Read this book to change your mind. Spinuzzi’s snazzy prose is part hardcore social theory, part corporate soap opera. He takes theoretical discussion of actor-network theory and activity theory in new directions, bringing them together in a productive tension to illuminate critical issues in human-computer interaction, computer-supported collaborative work, and organizational design. The empirical substrate for the theoretical work is a tour de force ethnography of a large telecommunications company. Spinuzzi talks and listens to the little people, he delves fearlessly into the complexities (and muddles) of the big theories, and is kind and generous to all. A must read.” —Bonnie Nardi, School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine

Innehållsförteckning

1. Networks, genres, and four little disruptions; 2. What is a network?; 3. How are networks theorized?; 4. How are networks historicized?; 5. How are networks enacted?; 6. Is our network learning?