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Technology in Working Order: Studies of Work, Interaction, and Technology book cover

1st Edition

Technology in Working Order Studies of Work, Interaction, and Technology

Edited By Graham Button Copyright 1993
282 Pages
by Routledge

282 Pages
by Routledge
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Social scientists have shown ongoing interest in how they can contribute to the use, design, operation, and implementation of technology. Substantial funding and research have supported empirically-based fieldwork that has led to important developments across various industrial and practical settings. Sociology has maintained a long-standing interest in technology, attempting to address its... Read more

Part 1: Analytic orientations

Introduction

1. The curious case of the vanishing technology
Graham Button

Part 2: Introducing technology into the work setting

Introduction

2. Disembodied conduct: interactional asymmetries in video-mediated communication
Christian Heath and Paul Luff

3. The use of ‘intelligent’ machines for electrocardiograph interpretation
Joanne Hartland

4. The police and information technology
Douglas Benson

5. Taking the organisation into accounts
Graham Button and R.H.R. Harper

Part 3: Work practices in the use of technology

Introduction

6. Technologies of accountability: of lizards and aeroplanes
Lucy Suchman

7. ‘What a f-ing system! Send ‘em all to the same place and then expect us to stop ‘em hitting’: making technology work in air traffic control
R.H.R. Harper and John A. Hughes

Part 4: Design and implementation

Introduction

8. Working towards agreement
Wes Sharrock and Bob Anderson

9. The mainstreaming of a molecular biological tool: a case study of a new technique
Kathleen Jordan and Michael Lynch

Part 5: Human–computer interaction

Introduction

10. System use and social organisation: observations on human–computer interaction in an architectural practice
Paul Luff and Christian Heath

11. We’re off to ring the wizard, the wonderful wizard of oz
Robin Wooffitt and Normal Fraser

12. The turing text and language skills
H.M. Collins

Biography

Graham Button is former Professor and Pro-Vice Chancellor for Arts, Computing, Engineering and Sciences at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. 

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