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Ethnomethodology at Work
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 114.95Key academics in ethnomethodology bring together one of the most important bodies of research into people's working practices to develop in the social sciences over the past fifty years. Graham Button, John Hughes and Wes Sharrock contribute to the volume and demonstrate the important contribution that ethnomethodological studies have so far made,... more...
Ethnomethodology at Play
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 124.95Demonstrating the breadth of ethnomethodological analysis and showing how no topic is beyond ethnomethodology's fundamental respecification, Ethnomethodology at Play sets out for the serious reader and researcher the precise contribution of ethnomethodology to sociological studies of sport and leisure and ordinary domestic pastimes. As such this... more...
Organisational Change in Retail Finance
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 210.00Financial organizations, like many others, are undergoing radical change. This is affecting both their organizational processes and the technology that supports those processes. This book reports on the use of sociological ethnography in helping guide these changes, both in terms of helping better understanding and redraw work processes and through... more...
Fieldwork for Design
Springer 2007; US$ 94.99Fieldwork for Design looks at why ethnographic approaches have been turned to in the design of computing devices for the workplace, for the home and elsewhere. It presents a history of ethnography, both as it was practiced before computer science picked it up and since, most especially in the CSCW and HCI domains. It examines, further, the various... more...
Trust in Technology
Springer 2006; US$ 119.99Encapsulates work done in the DIRC project (Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration in Dependability), bringing together a range of disciplinary approaches - computer science, sociology and software engineering - to produce a socio-technical systems perspective on the issues surrounding trust in technology in complex settings. more...
Leadership in Post Compulsory Education
Continuum International Publishing 2011; US$ 140.00The issue of leadership, the need for good, insightful and decisive leaders is a prominent theme in Education. Yet few can define exactly what leadership is. This book examines the phenomenon of leadership in post-compulsory education through the careful description and analysis of a long-term observational study of college principals at work. In contrast... more...
Configuring User-Designer Relations
Springer 2009; US$ 69.99User-designer relations' concerns the sorts of working relationships that arise between developers and end users of IT products - the different ways designers of IT products seek to engage with users, and the ways users seek to influence product design. It is through the shifting patterns of these relations that IT products are realised. Although... more...
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