Chains and ecologies: methodological notes toward a communicative-mediational model of technologically mediated writing

  • Authors:
  • Clay Spinuzzi;William Hart-Davidson;Mark Zachry

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Texas at Austin;Michigan State University;University of Washington

  • Venue:
  • SIGDOC '06 Proceedings of the 24th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Studies of knowledge work tend to take one of two research foci: either on communication (the transactional, intersubjective exchange of information, thoughts, writing, or speech among participants, performed in serial chains) or mediation (the nonsequential, implicit aspects of artifacts that serve to guide and constrain workers' activities). In this paper, we propose a methodological framework that coordinates the perspectives.