Network - Theorizing Knowledge Work in Telecommunications

Spinuzzi examines the networks of activity that make a telecommunications company work and thrive.

List of contents

1. Networks, genres, and four little disruptions; 2. What is a network?; 3. How are networks theorized?; 4. How are networks historicized?; 5. How are networks enacted?; 6. Is our network learning?

About the author

Clay Spinuzzi is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Texas, Austin, where he directs the Computer Writing and Research Lab. Spinuzzi's interests include research methods and methodology, workplace research, and computer-mediated activity. Spinuzzi has received several awards for his scholarship, including the National Council of Teachers of English Best Book in Technical or Scientific Communication (2004).

Summary

How does a telecommunications company function when its right hand doesn't know what its left hand is doing? Spinuzzi draws on two competing theories of activity to examine the networks of activity that make a telecommunications company work and thrive, examining the texts, trades, and technologies at play at Telecorp.

Product details

• Authors: Clay Spinuzzi, Clay (Associate Professor Spinuzzi, Spinuzzi Clay
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.12.2015
• EAN: 9781107564862
• ISBN: 978-1-107-56486-2
• No. of pages: 242
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, Organizational theory & behaviour, Organizational theory and behaviour, Postal & Telecommunications Industries