Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Theory in CSCW

By: Mark S. Ackerman (Editor), Christine A. Halverson (Editor), Thomas Erickson (Editor)

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Hardcover | 15 October 2007

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A topic of significant interest to the CSCW, IT and IS communities is the issue of how software and other technical systems come to be adopted and used. We know from considerable research that people use systems in many ways, and that the process of incorporating them in their everyday activities can require a great deal of effort. One way of understanding adoption and use is by considering artifacts as resources in people's environments.

"Resources, Co-Evolution and Artifacts: Theory in CSCW" looks at how resources get created, adopted, modified, and die, by using a number of theoretical and empirical studies to carefully examine and chart resources over time. It examines issues such as: how resources are tailored or otherwise changed as the situations and purposes for which they are used change; how a resource is maintained and reused within an organisation; the ways in which the value of a resource comes to be recognised and portrayed; the ways in which an artifact is transformed to enable it to function more effectively as a resource; the ways in which an artifact's usage practices evolve as it becomes recognized as a resource; how one might approach the problem of designing a resource de novo; the ways in which opportunistic use of an artifact transforms it into a new kind of resource.

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Non-Fiction Engineering & Technology Electronics & Communications Engineering Electronics Engineering Computing & I.T.Business Applications Collaboration & Group Software Operating Systems Business & Management Management & Management Techniques Science Science in General

Maths for Scientists Digital Lifestyle & Online World: Consumer & User Guides Internet Guides & Online Services Business Mathematics & Systems Computer Science Human-Computer Interaction Computer Networking & Communications

Artifacts and their Development
The Birth of an Organizational Resource: The Surprising Life of a Cheat Sheet
The Zephyr Help Instance as a CSCW Resource
Co-realisation: Towards a Principled Synthesis of Ethnomethodology and Participatory Design
Figuring Out How to Figure Out: Supporting Expertise Sharing in Online Systems
Contextualizing Influences: Language, Trust and Time
Representational Gestures as Cognitive Artifacts for Developing Theories in a Scientific Laboratory
Distributed Cognition and Joint activity in Computer-System Administration
Representation, Coordination, and Information Artifacts in Medical Work
Theorizing: Coordination, Co-realization and Structuration
Reach, Bracket, and the Limits of Rationalized Coordination: Some Challenges for CSCW
Down in the (Data)base(ment): Supporting Configuration in Organisational Information Systems
Using Technology and Constituting Structures: A Practice Lens for Studying Technology in Organisations
Reflections and Conclusions
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