[xmca] Schatzki; practices; genres

Aha! That is a very helpful reformulation of my fumbling around, Tony.
It remined me that Ritva Engestrom wrote about genres and AT in MCA a while
back and I found another explicit
discussion of genres and AT by David Russell at

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~drrussel/at&genre/at&genre.html

thanks!
mike

On 8/12/07, Tony Whitson <twhitson@udel.edu> wrote:
>
> Branimira,
>
> Here is another book that I think you'll want to see:
> Spinuzzi, Clay. Tracing Genres through Organizations: A Sociocultural
> Approach to Information Design, Acting with Technology;. Cambridge, Mass.:
> MIT Press, 2003.
>
> Here is a link that shows WorldCat participating libraries where the book
> can be found (If you enter your own location, libraries are listed in
> order of proximity to you):
>
> http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51923321
>
> Here is the WorldCat link for the Schatzki book
> http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33334500
>
> Spinuzzi's book should be of interest for a couple reasons. His
> theoretical approach is CHAT, supplemented with his own "Genre Tracing"
> methodology, which involves anaylsis of developing "genres" and "genre
> ecologies" to investigate a developing activity system across the levels
> of operations, actions, and activities.
>
> Without having read Schatzki, it sounds to me like his "practices" are
> more like Spinuzzi's "genres" than they are like "activities" in the CHAT
> sense -- although these can be all brought into the same picture together.
> In Spinuzzi's approach, there can be multiple genres operating in an
> Activity System, and a genre may be seen to operate in diverse activities.
>
> Spinuzzi's genre approach develops from a school of genre studies rooted
> in Bakhtin.
>
> The other reason you might want to see this book is that it illustrates
> the CHAT/genre tracing approach with an extended study (covering decades)
> of the Accident Location and Analysis System in the US state of Iowa. It
> seems like there would be a high degree of overlap between the information
> seeking and using activities between his study and yours.
>
> -- Tony
>
> On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, Branimira Slavova wrote:
>
> > Hello Mike,
> >
> > Thanks for your interest!
> > The Schatzki book I've been reading is: "Social Practices: A
> Wittgensteinian Approach to Human Activity and the Social" (Cambridge
> University Press, 1996). A copy of it should not be too hard to get. He
> discusses the ideas of dipersed practices and interative practices in Ch. 3.
> After reading it I thought that integrative practices parallel quite closely
> activities as understood in AT but I could not find a parallel for the
> concept of dispersed practices. The way I understood those is as a sort of
> modular sayings and doings, which can occur within the context of different
> integrative practices and hold different meanings. For example, questioning
> can be thought of as a dispersed practice because it does not carry its own
> rules or teleoaffective structure. These are provided by the different
> integrative practices within which questioning occurs -- practices as
> different as interrogating and teaching.
> >
> > What I am interested is being able to discuss within an AT framework
> elements consistent with Schatzki's dispersed practices. I am working on a
> project studying the use of mobile technologies for information-seeking
> during routine policing activities in the UK. I am looking at a number of
> activities such as traffic stops and emergency response to incidents. AT is
> our set framework and I would find being able to discuss information-seeking
> episodes occuring within the different activities very useful. I just don't
> know if AT carries something of its own which can do the job.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Mira
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Dr Mira Slavova
> > Research Fellow in Information Management
> > AIM TECH
> > Maurice Keyworth Building
> > The University of Leeds
> > Leeds LS2 9JT
> > Tel: 0113 343 7818
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu on behalf of Mike Cole
> > Sent: Sun 8/12/2007 00:41
> > To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> > Subject: [xmca] Schatzki
> >
> > I should have know to look on google and depend upon the library of the
> > university of california!
> >
> > Lots of info there.
> >
> > homepage
> >
> > http://www.uky.edu/AS/Philosophy/TheodoreSchatzki.htm
> >
> > mike
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>
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