Making work visible : ethnographically grounded case studies of work practice / [edited by] Margaret...
Making work visible : ethnographically grounded case studies of work practice / [edited by] Margaret H. Szymanski, Jack Whalen.
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Date
2011.
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N331.256/10
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English
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xxvii, 374 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: Introduction Margaret H. Szymanski and Jack Whalen; Part I. Work Practice Study in Historical Context: 1. Work practice and technology: a retrospective Lucy Suchman; 2. Engineering investigations: what is made visible in making work visible? Wes Sharrock and Graham B...
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Publisher
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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England
Date Published
2011.
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- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
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Summary
"In the 1970s, Xerox pioneered the involvement of social science researchers in technology design and in developing better ways of working. The Xerox legacy is a hybrid methodology that combines an ethnographic interest in direct observation in settings of interest with an ethnomethodological concern to make the study of interactional work an empir...
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Making work visible : ethnographically grounded case studies of work practice / [edited by] Margaret H. Szymanski, Jack Whalen.
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Learning in doing : social, cognitive, and computational perspectives.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-371) and index.
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N331.256/10
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0521176654 (paperback)
9780521190725 (hardback)
052119072X (hardback)
9780521176651 (paperback)
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331.256
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991006429549702626