Thesis-1998-Anderson.pdf (5.5 MB)
Un-constraining the medium: design software systems to support situated action
thesis
posted on 2018-01-30, 11:01 authored by Ben AndersonThis dissertation is concerned with Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
and in particular with ways in which insights from ethnomethodology can be melded
into the design of CSCW systems—a relationship that has been labelled technomethodology.
The dissertation outlines a number of possible ways in which system design
can learn from ethnomethodology and concentrates on one particular aspect—namely
that CSCW should look closely at its foundational assumptions and, if necessary,
re-specify any concepts which appear problematic in their formulation. [Continues.]
History
School
- Science
Department
- Computer Science
Publisher
© Ben AndersonPublisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 2.5 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.5) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/Publication date
1998Notes
A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy at Loughborough University.Language
- en