Guest Editor's Introduction: Technical Communication in the Age of Distributed Work

Guest Editor's Introduction: Technical Communication in the Age of Distributed Work

In this introduction, I review the topic of the special issue, distributed work: coordinative, polycontextual, cross-disciplinary work that splices together divergent work activities (separated by time, space, organizations, and objectives) and that enables the transformations of information and tex...

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Veröffentlicht in:Technical communication quarterly 2007-06, Vol.16 (3), p.265-277
1. Verfasser: Spinuzzi, Clay
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
20th century
Automation
Boundaries
Capitalism
Coherence
Collaboration
Communication Research
Expertise
Filing
Globalization
Industrial Revolution
Knowledge Economy
Lifelong Learning
Manufactured products
Manufacturing
Rhetorical Criticism
Skills
Students
Swedish language
Technical communication
Technical Writing
Telecommunications
Unemployment
Workers
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Zusammenfassung:In this introduction, I review the topic of the special issue, distributed work: coordinative, polycontextual, cross-disciplinary work that splices together divergent work activities (separated by time, space, organizations, and objectives) and that enables the transformations of information and texts that characterize such work. After reviewing the literature on distributed work, I introduce the articles in this special issue.
ISSN:1057-2252
1542-7625
DOI:10.1080/10572250701290998