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On Intertext in Chemotherapy: an Ethnography of Text in Medical Practice

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Building on literary theory and data from a field study of text in chemotherapy, this article introduces the concept of intertext and the associated concepts of corpus and intertextuality to CSCW. It shows that the ensemble of documents used and produced in practice can be said to form a corpus of written texts. On the basis of the corpus, or subsections thereof, the actors in cooperative work create intertext between relevant (complementary) texts in a particular situation, for a particular purpose. The intertext of a particular situation can be constituted by several kinds of intertextuality, including the complementary type, the intratextual type and the mediated type. In this manner the article aims to systematically conceptualise cooperative actors’ engagement with text in text-laden practices. The approach is arguably novel and beneficial to CSCW. The article also contributes with a discussion of computer enabling the activity of creating intertext. This is a key concern for cooperative work as intertext is central to text-centric work practices such as healthcare.

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Christensen, Lars Rune (2016): On Intertext in Chemotherapy: an Ethnography of Text in Medical Practice. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW): Vol. 25, No. 1. DOI: 10.1007/s10606-015-9238-1. Springer. PISSN: 1573-7551. pp. 1-38

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Computer technology, Documents, Healthcare, Intertext, Literary theory, Text

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Number of citations to item: 10

  • Lars Rune Christensen, Richard H. R. Harper (2016): The Many Faces of Computational Artifacts, In: COOP 2016: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, 23-27 May 2016, Trento, Italy, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-33464-6_6
  • Volkmar Paul Engerer, Fatima Sabir (2018): Information professionals meet Arthur Prior, In: Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 1(52), doi:10.1177/0961000618799527
  • Peter Heinrich, Alexander Richter, Lars Rune Christensen, Gerhard Schwabe (2018): Creating, Reinterpreting, Combining, Cuing, In: Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Supporting Groupwork, doi:10.1145/3148330.3148341
  • Lars Rune Christensen, Thomas Hildebrandt (2017): Modelling Cooperative Work at a Medical Department, In: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies, doi:10.1145/3083671.3083682
  • Lucas D Introna, Niall Hayes, Zaina Al-Hejin (2019): The negotiated order and electronic patient records: A sociomaterial perspective, In: Journal of Information Technology 4(34), doi:10.1177/0268396219870548
  • Lene Nielsen, Lars Rune Christensen, Anne Sabers (2017): Do we have to include HCI issues in clinical trials of medical devices?, In: Proceedings of the 29th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction, doi:10.1145/3152771.3156135
  • Leah Kulp, Aleksandra Sarcevic, Yinan Zheng, Megan Cheng, Emily Alberto, Randall Burd (2020): Checklist Design Reconsidered: Understanding Checklist Compliance and Timing of Interactions, In: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, doi:10.1145/3313831.3376853
  • Lars Rune Christensen, Hasib Ahsan, Mamunur Rashid, Badal Kumar Das (2019): Are you magicians?, In: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, doi:10.1145/3287098.3287109
  • Gabriela Marcu, Anind K. Dey, Sara Kiesler (2021): Tensions in Representing Behavioral Data in an Electronic Health Record, In: Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 3(30), doi:10.1007/s10606-021-09402-7
  • Lars Rune Christensen, Hasib Ahsan, Mamunur Rashid, Badal Kumar Das (2019): A Local Perspective: Working an Agricultural Information Service into a Rural Community, In: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-19115-3_22
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