Engestrom Refs
Mike Cole (mcole who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu)
Wed, 3 Mar 1999 10:18:59 -0800 (PST)
We have had queries around about refs to recent Engestrom work on artifacts
in activity. Here are some.
mike
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>Bill
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>Bill, a quick response. I have written on artifacts-in-activity in various
>places, one being a chapter titled 'When is a tool?' in my book 'Learning,
>Working and Imagining: Twelve Studies in Activity Theory' (Helsinki, 1990).
>Another piece that may be relevant is the chapter 'Mundane tool or object
>of affection? The rise and fall of the Postal Buddy', authored by me and
>Virginia Escalante, published in the book 'Context and Consciousness', ed.
>by Bonnie Nardi (MIT Press, 1995).
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>As to the interventionist use of activity system triangles, here are a
>couple of references:
>-Engestr=F6m, Y., Virkkunen, J., Helle, M., Pihlaja, J. & Poikela. T. (1996=
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>The change laboratory as a tool for transforming work. Lifelong Learning in
>Europe, 1(2), 10-17.
>-Engestr=F6m, Y. (1999). Expansive visibilization of work: An
>activity-theoretical perspective. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 8,
>63-93.
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>If you have trouble locating these refs, let me know.
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>Yrjo
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