Resources, Co-Evolution and Artifacts Theory in CSCW /

• Main Authors: Ackerman, Mark S. (Author), Halverson, Christine A. (Author), Erickson, Thomas (Author), Kellogg, Wendy A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2008.
• Series: Computer Supported Cooperative Work,
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Computers.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Management information systems.; Computer science.; Computer mathematics.; Computational Science and Engineering.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Information Systems and Communication Service.; Management of Computing and Information Systems.

How do software and other technical systems come to be adopted and used? People use software and other technical systems in many ways, and a considerable amount of time and energy may be spent integrating the functionality of the system with the everyday activities it is intended to support. Underst...

Table of Contents:

• 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-Realization: Toward 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 Organizational Information Systems
• Using Technology and Constituting Structures: A Practice Lens for Studying Technology in Organizations
• Reflections and Conclusions: Toward a Theory of Resources.