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Datacloud: Toward a New Theory of Online Work (Johndan Johnson-Eiola)

 
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Title: Datacloud
Sub-title: Toward a New Theory of Online Work
Author(s): Johndan Johnson-Eiola
Publish Date: 2005
Pages: 176
Format: Paper
 
 
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This book examines information work from a broad range of viewpoints to construct a better understanding of how and why we use computer technologies as we do. Constructing a post-disciplinary theoretical framework from disciplines including rhetoric, technical communication, cultural studies, architecture, and more, Datacloud interrogates how people work in a variety of contexts, both computer-supported and analog. Using examples drawn from classrooms, recording studios, offices and parking lots, Datacloud constructs a theoretical and practical apparatus for re-thinking communication and work in the age of saturated information spaces.

Contents: INTROCUCTION: ERRATIC TRAJECTIRIES. REARTICULATIONS: THE CHANGING SHAPES OF COMPUTER SPACES. Almost Unnoticed: Understanding the Future Now. Breakdown and Recombination. TENDENTIAL FORCES: A BRIEF PRIMER ON ARTICULATION THEORY AND SYMBOLIC-ANALYTIC WORK. Articulation Theory. Symbolic-Analytic Work. Rearticulating Working and Learning. TOWARD FLATNESS: CHANGING ARTICULATIONS OF INTERFACE DESIGN. A Brief History of Computer Interfaces. INTERFACE OVERFLOW. “Work with Stuff” A Space for Academic Theory and Research. Information Overflow: Protocols and Music Composition. Spaces for Symbolic-Analytic Workspace. Returning to the Lab: Rearticulating Student Work Spaces. Virtual Reality and Ubiquitous Computing: Some Suggestions About Mediated, Heterogeneous. ARTICULATING IN THE DATACLOUD. Tendential Forces in Education and Work. OTHER STORIES, OTHER TEXTS; OTHER IDEAS ABOUT WORK. Cuts, Channels. And Loops: Rearticulating Music. Interface as Deconstructive Architecture: Articulating Heterogeneous Spaces. SOME REARTICULATIONS; EMERGENT SYMBOLIC-ANALYTIC SPACES. FODA: A TEXT RICH IN FRAGMENTS. References. Author Index. Subject Index.


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