'collective knowledge' Tag

• Review: Talking About Machines by Julian Orr

  November 8, 2008

  This is a review of Julian Orr’s Talking About Machines, an ethnography of Xerox photocopier technicians. Blurring the line between ethnomethodology, organizational communication, infrastructure studies, human-computer/machine interaction, business administration, and traditional ethnography of work, his study reveals more than just the daily practices of what may initially seem like a boring job.

  posted in Reviews and Responses by R. Stuart Geiger