Do categories have politics?
| dc.contributor.author | Suchman, Lucy | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-06-06T00:42:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-06-06T00:42:34Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1993 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Drawing on writings within the CSCW community and on recent social theory, this paper proposes that the adoption of speech act theory as a foundation for system design carries with it an agenda of discipline and control over organization members' actions. I begin with a brief review of the language/action perspective introduced by Winograd, Flores and their colleagues, focusing in particular on the categorization of speakers' intent. I then turn to some observations on the politics of categorization and, with that framework as back-ground, consider the attempt, through the coordinator , to implement a technological system for intention-accounting within organizations. Finally, I suggest the implications of the analysis presented in the paper for the politics of CSCW systems design. | de |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/BF00749015 | |
| dc.identifier.pissn | 1573-7551 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00749015 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dl.eusset.eu/handle/20.500.12015/3435 | |
| dc.publisher | Springer | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW): Vol. 2, No. 3 | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) | |
| dc.subject | Coordination technologies | |
| dc.subject | organizational communications | |
| dc.subject | speech act theory | |
| dc.subject | systems design | |
| dc.title | Do categories have politics? | de |
| dc.type | Text/Journal Article | |
| gi.citation.endPage | 190 | |
| gi.citation.startPage | 177 |