Re: [xmca] Schatzki; practices; genres

Thanks, Mike,
Russell's paper has been published in the journal Written Communication.
The page for that article is:
http://wcx.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/14/4/504

That page shows links to a number of articles that have cited Russell's
paper, several of which may be of interest to folks here.

On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, Mike Cole wrote:

> 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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>>
>> Tony Whitson
>> UD School of Education
>> NEWARK DE 19716
>>
>> twhitson@udel.edu
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