On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Louise Ferguson wrote:
Happy new year to you all!
I'm just about to launch on some interdisciplinary research on 'ICT and work' (the others are sociologists/anthropologists, I am an HCI person interested in CSCW and ethnographic techniques). So we're coming at the issue from some fairly different literatures.
Louise, i highly recommend a relatively recent issue of Information, Communication & Society, guest edited by Nina Wakeford (Volume 5, Number 1/January 01, 2002) http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/app/home/issue.asp?wasp=6alpnjxtqtxm4 fxhlbcl&referrer=parent&backto=journal,2,14;linkingpublicationresults,1,1 Editorial Comment Nina Wakeford Keeping Up: Web Design Skill and The Reinvented Worker Nalini P. Kotamraju Hot Jobs in Cool Places. The Material Cultures of New Media Product Spaces: The Case of South of the Market, San Francisco Andy C. Pratt Occupational Technologists as an Occupational Community: Ethnographic Evidence Daniel Marschall Cool, Creative and Egalitarian? Exploring Gender in Project-Based New Media Work in Europe Rosalind Gill Trusting Strangers: Work Relationships in Four High-Tech Communities J.A. English-Lueck, Charles N. Darrah, Andrea Saveri Playing at work: Understanding the Future of Work Practices at the Institute for the Future Lonny J Brooks, Geoffrey Bowker i also suggest the work of Gina Neff. david silver