文档介绍：network
How does a pany function when its right hand often
doesn’t know what its left hand is doing? How do rapidly expanding, inter-
anizations hold together and perform their knowledge work?
In this book, Clay Spinuzzi draws on two warring theories of work activity –
activity theory and work theory – to examine works of activity
that make a pany work and thrive. In doing so, Spin-
uzzi calls a truce between the two theories, bringing them to the negotiating
table to parley about work. Specifically, work: the work that connects,
coordinates, and stabilizes polycontextual work activities.
To develop this uneasy dialogue, Spinuzzi examines the texts, trades, and
technologies at play at Telecorp, both historically and empirically. Drawing
on both theories, Spinuzzi provides new insights into work actually
works and how our theories and research methods can be extended to better
understand it.
After receiving a BA puter science and an MA in English at the University
of North Texas, Clay Spinuzzi earned his PhD in rhetoric and professional
communication at Iowa State University. He served as assistant professor of
munication and rhetoric at Texas Tech University for two years
before accepting a position at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin. From 2004
to 2008, he directed UT’puter Writing and Research Lab.
Spinuzzi’s work has appeared in the Journal of Business and -
munication, munication Quarterly,munica-
tion. His previous book, Tracing Genres anizations, was named the
NationalCouncilofTeachersofEnglish2004 Best Book in Technical or Scientific
Communication, one of four national awards the author has received.
Network
theorizing knowledge work in
munications
Clay Spinuzzi
University of Texas at Austin
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