Kirsten, I was very excited to see your announcement of the Acting with Technology series! My recent research has focused on mediated action analyses of online collaborative problem solving and learning environments. More specifically, my graduate students and I have been looking at the ways digital educational resources and tools (sometimes called "learning objects") mediate the collaborative problem solving and learning processes, relying heavily on Wertsch, Vygotsky and the Bakhtin Circle for interpretive frameworks. I believe I may have some ideas for a book that would fit the series very nicely. Could you please provide more information regarding how one should submit a proposal? Thanks in advance, David Kirsten Foot wrote:
Greetings--
Those of you who attended ICA this year may have seen a flyer about this new series. Please pass this announcement on to colleagues whose work may correspond to the themes in the series description below.
-Kirsten Foot
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Announcing a new series of books from The MIT Press
*Acting with Technology*
Bonnie Nardi, Victor Kaptelinin, and Kirsten Foot, Series Editors
Books published in this new series are concerned with the study of meaningful human activity as it is mediated by tools and technologies. The series will explore developments in postcognitivist theory and practice concerning technology from the fields of sociology, communication, education, and organizational studies, as well as from science and technology studies, human-computer interaction and computer-supported collaborative work. Acting with Technology volumes will encompass theoretical frameworks including activity theory, actor network theory, distributed cognition, and those developed through ethnomethodological and grounded theory approaches. They analyze tool-mediated processes of working, playing and learning in and across a wide variety of social settings. Our goal is to publish the best new booksboth research monographs and textbooksthat contribute to a discussion of technology as a crucial facet of human activity enacted in rich social and physical contexts.
FOR INFORMATION ON THE SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS AND MANUSCRIPTS, PLEASE CONTACT ANY OF THE EDITORS OR THE PUBLISHER: BONNIE NARDI VICTOR KAPTELININ Agilent Laboratories Department of Informatics 3500 Deer Creek Road, MS 24M-A Umeå University Palo Alto, CA 94304 S-901 87 Umeå, Sweden bonnie_nardi@agilent.com vklinin@informatik.umu.se
KIRSTEN FOOT ROBERT PRIOR School of Communications The MIT Press University of Washington, Box 353740 5 Cambridge Center Seattle WA 98195-3740 Cambridge, MA 02142 kfoot@u.washington.edu prior@mit.edu
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