Technology in action /

Technology in action /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Heath, Christian, 1952-
Imprint:	Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 269 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Learning in doing Learning in doing.
Subject:	Technology -- Social aspects. Information technology -- Social aspects. Information technology -- Social aspects. Technology -- Social aspects. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11117289

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Other authors / contributors:	Luff, Paul.
ISBN:	9780511489839 0511489838 0511011296 9780511011290 0511152302 9780511152306 9780521560337 0521560330 9780521568692 0521568692 051117327X 9780511173271 9780511053436 0511053436 128041703X 9781280417030 9786610417032 6610417032 1107113067 9781107113060 0511327439 9780511327438
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-266) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	This book explores the way complex systems affect everyday work and interaction through video-based field studies looking at the introduction of basic information systems in general medical practice, news production, the control room of London Underground and computer aided design in architectural practice.
Other form:	Print version: Heath, Christian, 1952- Technology in action. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000 0521560330

Table of Contents:

1. Technology and social action: computers and situated conduct
2. Documents and professional practice: 'bad' organisational reasons for 'good' clinical records
3. Animating texts: the collaborative production of news stories
4. Team work: collaboration and control in London Underground line control rooms
5. The collaborative production of computer commands
6. 'Interaction' with computers in architecture