Context and consciousness: activity theory and human-computer interaction
Context and consciousness: activity theory and human-computer interaction
Mundane tool or object of affection?: the rise and fall of the Postal Buddy
Context and consciousness
Dynamics in document design: creating text for readers
Dynamics in document design: creating text for readers
Considering an organization's memory
CSCW '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Reexamining organizational memory
Communications of the ACM
Genre ecologies: an open-system approach to understanding and constructing documentation
ACM Journal of Computer Documentation (JCD)
Rethinking the author-reader relationship in computer documentation
ACM SIGDOC Asterisk Journal of Computer Documentation
Concepts of cognition and consciousness: four voices
ACM SIGDOC Asterisk Journal of Computer Documentation
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Technical communicators have longed turned to audience, purpose, and context as they analyze situations. But Mirel's article demonstrates that audience-purpose-context is too weak a framework to handle the job of detailed sociopolitical analysis: not only is it inadequate for analyzing the needs of end users, it is also inadequate for analyzing situations within the writer's organization. In this response, this paper explores the weakness of audience-purpose-context and points to alternative sociopolitical frameworks.