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- Bjurström, Erling, 1949-
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Högt och lågt : Smak och stil i ungdomskulturen
- 1997
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The thesis contributes to the understanding of modern youth cultures. The study consists of three parts. The first part explores the development of youth culture research. In the second part a theoretical perspective is developed on taste and style that can be applied to contemporary youth cultures. The key concepts used in this elaboration are stylisation and contextualisation, and the distinction between style markers and style elements. Stylisation is regarded as a prerequisite for the production of style, which puts emphasis on the agency involved in the construction of youth styles. Style markers, i.e. single or combined elements which give an immediate comprehension of the distinctive traits of a style, are fundamental to the social classification and decoding of styles. They also play a decisive role in the recontextualisation of styles. Styles are always drawn into processes of distinction and dialogism. The former of these processes has foremost been elaborated in the cultural sociology of Pierre Bourdieu and the latter in the work of Paul Ricoeur and Mikhail Bakhtin. In the second part of the thesis these approaches are combined into a dialectic of distinction and dialogism. At the same time Bourdieu's notions of symbolic capital, social fields and habitus are scrutinized. In the third part of the thesis the theoretical perspective is oriented towards empirical findings. The aim of the empirical investigations is to analyse whether and to what extent social dimensions are reflected in young people's taste for culture and aesthetics. The data used in the empirical analysis were collected in three Swedish cities, Gothenburg, Gävle and Stockholm, in 1991/92, 1993 and 1994/95 respectively. The methodology used is a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, that makes it possible to analyse young people's cultural and aesthetic orientations from both the perspective of structure and agency. The analysis of the data from Gothenburg and Gävle confirms Bourdieu's notion of the crucial role played by the educational system in the distribution of symbolic capital, and that there are marked differences between male and female tastes. The analysis of the structural differences in the pupils' taste was complemented by an analysis of the sense for the taste-game of culture based on interviews conducted with young people in Stockholm. In an ideal typical manner the interviewed young perople's orientations towards culture and aesthetics were divided into three categories: one which solely preferred non-consecrated forms of culture, another which mainly preferred popular culture, and yet another, with a relatively strong taste for both consecrated and popular culture. The sense for cultural distinctions in the last group was not merely bound to high culture, but also to popular culture. From this the conclusion is reached that the pure aesthetic gaze is not the only gaze involved in cultural distinction. It is further argued that Bourdieu's theory of symbolic capital, fields and habitus ought to be complemented with an analysis of different kinds of social fields and their power of consecration in the understanding of cultural hierarchies. The sense for the taste-game of culture also played a crucial role in young people's orientations to different styles. The sense for style was in many cases intervened with structural reflexivity and self-reflexivity. Finally, an analysis of the male and female style gaze was extracted from the gender differences found in the empirical material. The male style gaze is mainly turned towards style, whereas the female style gaze is foremost turned towards stylisation. In this way boys are more inclined than girls to position themselves in relation to the symbolic structures of style.
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- Lundälv, Jörgen, 1966
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Det talande offret. Journalistik vid olyckor och katastrofer
- 1999
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Book (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Det talande offret är en skildring av tillståndet i svensk krisjournalistik och en diskussion om hur väl förberedda journalister är i kontakterna med den sårade och lidande människan. I boken berättar reportrar och fotografer om sina erfarenheter från olycks- och katastrofplatser. Två viktiga metoder framkommer: "kompostering" och "återvinning" av kriserfarenheter. Boken ger även råd om hur räddningspersonal mfl i sin yrkesroll bör bemöta pressen när en katastrof inträffat. Boken, som är den första i sitt slag i Sverige, kan användas som studiematerial inom journalist-, medicin-, vård-, socionom-, polis-, och räddningstjänstutbildningarna.
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- Bolin, Göran, 1959-
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Filmbytare : videovåld, kulturell produktion & unga män
- 1998
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The focus of this thesis is Swedish Film Swappers, i.e. young men who swap video films that include graphically explicit depictions of violence, and their cultural practices. Inspired by action and horror films some Film Swappers have become cultural producers, either of amateur videos, or of fanzines, i.e. amateur writing by fans for other fans.The Film Swappers have been studied through the analytical lens of public spheres, taste and identity, and by the methods of media ethnography (including participant communication, ethnographic interviews and textual analysis of the films they watch and the cultural artifacts they produce). Five groups of fanzine producers and three groups of amateur video producers have been studied from late 1992 to 1996. The material consists of interviews, fanzines, video films (commercial as well as amateur productions), newspaper and magazine articles, radio programmes and field notes.Fanzines have been central to the communicative organisation of the Film Swappers, and have contributed to the development of a public structure for the exchange of films, and of information on where to get hold of them and to read more about them. Through communicative action, an alternative public sphere with its own forms of consumption, distribution and production has been formed. The debate on the value of different films and videos has also been used strategically by the Film Swappers for distinctive taste practices, and alternative film canons have been proposed. This communicative and strategic action has been of great importance in the construction of the young men's identity.
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- Svensson, Göran, 1958-
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Mediekritik och mediemakt : Bidrag till en kartering av mediekritikens fält
- 1998
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 35:3-4, s. 171-194
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In the late 90s critical debate and research on the media have gained wide attention. Media criticism and critique is becoming a central political, social and scientific issue. In the article the concept of media criticism is discussed. Media criticism is interpreted as public discourse assessing the media and media impact. Beyond a dialogue on media policy and media practice, criticism offers highly polarized and partly mystifying accounts of the media and its social and cultural impact. The heated debate on media is interpreted as part of a social struggle between different social institutions (markets, politics, science and media) and as different models for action and knowledge. New forms and arenas for media criticism are also suggested and discussed.
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- Holmberg, Susan, 1957-
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Confronting Value Strain : Press Coverage of Health Care Reform in Sweden and the United States
- 1999
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This dissertation examines the journalistic discourse surrounding health care reform debates in Sweden and the US in the early 1990's. It found that in both countries, the challenging value (i.e. collectivism in US, individualism in Sweden) was treated less favorably than the dominant value both in the journalistic text and in the choice of actors allowed to speak through the media. Journalists in both countries protected their own dominant value and helped to resist core value change, although they tended to allow actors to express challenging values more loudly than they themselves would do. Study based on qualitative and quantitative content analysis of New York Times, USA Today, Dagens Nyheter and Expressen 1992-1995.
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- Sveningsson, Malin, 1968
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Cybermöten. Om webchat som arena för kontaktskapande
- 1999
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In: Fägerborg & Westergren (Red.) Mus och Människa. Nordiska muséets skriftserie. - Stockholm : Nordiska muséets skriftserie. ; , s. 69-79
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- Cedersund, Elisabet, 1950-
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Från personligt problem till administrativt beslut : att ansöka om ekonomiskt bistånd
- 1992
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Book (other academic/artistic)abstract
- One of the main interests behind this study has been to examine how institutions, such as the social services, deal with people 's troubles and difficulties, how a private problem is transferred to the language used within a public institution. The study deals with the processing of applications for financial assistance, and is based on a documentation of talk and text - from the initial telephone mediated contact to the final written decision - which are produced in the handling of the clients' applications. Even though previous studies of institutional discourse have shown interest in the daily routines of formal organizations, working with the processing of cases, they have often neglected the role that different kinds of texts play in these processes. The present study concems the roJe of text and talk as parts of such routines.DATAThe study contains a detailed documentation of the processing of appJications for financial assistance involving 25 individual cases. This corpus was compiled a) telephone conversations between social workers and clients (20 calls are documented by means of participant observations and written notes)b) face-to-face conversations between social workers and clients (25 audio-taped conversations)c) application forms and other written documents which form the basis for decisions (copies of the relevant papers from 20 cases)d) the social workers' written decisions (copies from 20 cases)e) meetings with the social welfare committee (discuss ions and decisions conceming 3 applications documented by means of participant observation and written notes: copies of the minutes and other kinds of written decisions)f) interviews with the clients and social workers, who participatedin the study (23 clients and 15 social workers have participated in audio-taped interviews).ANALYSISThe recorded conversations and interviews were transcribed in extenso. The analyses are based on the transcriptions as well as the audio-tapes. The conversations have been analysed in several ways, e.g. in terms of sequential structure and contents as well as their function in the institutional context.The written documents - the applications and decisions etc. - included in the study have been analysed mainly with regard to their significance in the processing of the individual cases. The documents have made it possible to investigate both the relation between spoken and written discourse and the processing of 'cases' through several stages, which is common in many areas of bureaucratic organizations (Jönsson, 1988).RESULTSThe presentation of the results of this study follows the stages which have been identified in the processing of the cases. This handling of the clients is found to follow a distinct order which includes the following steps: 1) the client's initial telephone call to the social welfare office; 2) the application form which is supposed to be filled in by the client; 3) the social welfare interview; 4) the decision concerning the client's application. In short, the findings may be summarized as follows.The initial telephone conversation functions as a buffer between the social welfare officer and the applicants. During this stage in the processing of people, a 'screening' takes place. This gives the social worker a chance to make informal judgements as to whether the client should persist in seeking help and also to provide the ' client-to-be' with information concerning other ways of solving her or his financial difficulties. If the client's financial (and social) position seems to fit into some of the categories that make a person eligible for financial assistance, a slot for the client is found (i.e. this person is offered an appointment for an interview and/or provided with an application form).The application form is used to collect information about the applicant. This form, however, plays a more prominent role in the different stages than expected, since it gives a structure to many of the routines and procedures used when a client's application is being handled. This procedure may moreover be seen as a way of disciplining clients, and teaching them 'the client role' (cf. Lipsky, 1980, p. 61). When a person has filled in the necessary details on this application form, he or she has been accepted and given a client status in the further relations with the social welfare office.The social welfare interview gives the client access to the social welfare office and gives him the opportunity of providing more information about his or her financial difficulties. The conversation usually begins with a revision of the application form. In connection with this, the client often talks about the events in the past which are related to the need for financial assistance (cf. Cedersund, 1992). It is during the interview that we are able to observe how the client's financial problems are reformulated in a way that may be accepted within the social welfare organization. This transformation of 'problems' into 'cases' is made possible through the use of a typification where the clients are assigned to certain categories which are usually implicitly expressed in discourse.The decision is made by the social workers or in some cases her supervisor and/or the district board for social welfare services (Sw. : social distriktsnämnd). The decision is often given to the client in the social welfare interviews and the written decisions are mostly produced after this encounter. These written texts in most cases include a short summary of the specific details of the client's financial difficulties and needs. This summary may be similar to a later version of the client's own oral account of his or her financial difficulties given during the welfare interview. The last part of the written decisions always includes statements which show the approval (or rejection) of the client's application. The written decisions seem to be produced in order to document the processing of the applications within the office rather than as a text to be read by the clients.
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- Persson, Christian, 1960-, et al.
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The SportWeb Case: Design and Prototyping of a System for E-commerce and Research.
- 1999
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper describes the design of an e-commerce system with the capability to generate consumer data. A system prototype has been created which supports real-time identification, selection, and exposure of personalized content. Combined with tracking of the visitor’s movements on the Web-site, the system makes it possible to establish detailed behavioral patterns. The paper aims at making design process and considerations transparent to the reader.
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- Hallengren, Anders, 1950-
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Litteraturen och framtiden
- 1986
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In: Värld och Vetande: Populär- och tvärvetenskaplig tidskrift. - Linköping : Värld och Vetande. - 0346-4873. ; 35:3-4, s. 83-93
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Journal article (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- An essay on the past and future of literature
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- Eriksén, Sara
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Knowing and the Art of IT Management. An inquiry into work practices in one-stop shops
- 1998
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- New information technology is developing faster than the models, metaphors and methods in use for conceptualizing the sharing and managing of information in organizations, in communities and in society in general. The way we utilize information technology today does not seem to succeed in supporting the everyday work practices through which organizations accomplish their work. In this Ph.D. dissertation, the results of a research project about skill, cooperation and computer support in public service one-stop shops are presented and discussed. Based on these results, alternative metaphors are presented for understanding the constructive aspects of front office work practices. One hypothesis is, that there is added value in not only being aware of multiperspectivity as an issue, but of making use of it in design. A problem here is that many traditional research methods, as well as most methods for systems development, are designed to diminish rather than make use of ambiguity and diversity. The metaphor of inverted indexicality of language is introduced in order to conceptualize the construction of meaning in action. New ways of conceptualizing IT management for the shop floor - including design issues - are proposed. Metaphors like 'the art of IT management', 'gardening' and 'caring for' are indicative of the issues at stake.
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- Ingemarsson, Ingemar
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Encryption in Data Networks with Application to Teletex
- 1978
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- TELETEX is a new international telecommunication service for text communication between terminals capable of data storage and possibly integrated in a information processing system, [l]. The new service is intended to fill the same needs as does business mail. With regard to information security this means that the information handled by the TELETEX system shall not be unintentionally changed or destroyed or lost to an unintended receiver. Measures to prevent this are called information protection. (We prefer to use the terms information security and information protection rather than data security and data protection. The reason is that "data " in the sense of a string of symbol s may be lost without revealing the information represented by the data. This is for example the case when the data consists of encrypted information).One of the most efficient methods for information protection is to use encryption. This means that the information is transmitted using a ''language" which i s not understood by is efficiently protected against loss and in most cases also against undetected change. Cryptological methods can also be used to detect information destruction. In Section 2 of this report we discuss the basic problems involved with the use of encryption in data networks in general.In a separate report we discuss the possible threats to the information security in TELETEX. This leads to suggestions regarding suitable protection methods. Our standpoint is that TELETEX shall offer at least the same level of information security as does the established mail distribution system.
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- Wallin, Erik, et al.
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Using autonomous agents in Internet marketing : A discussion on subjective product characteristics in agent assisted trade
- 1998
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In: Technologies for the Information Society. - Amsterdam : IOS Press. - 90 5199 450 8 - 4 274 90251 ; , s. 225-232
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- An important issue in Internet marketing is the possibility of designing autonomous agents that are able to interpret subjective values in goods and services. From the customer's point of view, it is important to evaluate all aspects linked to the product before purchasing, not only easily identified objective parameters such as price. From a marketing perspective, the building of a brand is probably the most efficient way to distinguish a product from those of the competitors. It is therefore important for both customers and marketers to design agents that are able to interpret certain subjective product characteristics when searching for products or services on the Internet. This paper outlines a generic model of an autonomous agent Internet marketing system with a discussion on the possibilities of handling subjective product characteristics.
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- Gauntlett, David, et al.
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TV living : Television, culture and everyday life
- 1999
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Book (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This book presents the findings of a British Film Institute project in which 500 participants completed detailed questionnaire diaries over a five year period. Writing some three and a half million words on their lives, their television watching, and the relationship between the two.
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- Linderholm, Inger
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Målgruppen och budskapet : En modell för målgruppsanpassning av trafiksäkerhetsbudskap till unga manliga trafikanter
- 1997
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The empirical work rests on two separate theoretical foundations: theories that form the basis for analyzing the different target groups and theories dealing with persuasion. Theories of the first sort concern life-style, individual values, perceived risk, individual characteristics and self-image. Earlier research on young car drivers is also relevant in this context. Theories on attitudes and attitude change and on persuasion and persuasive strategies, in turn, constitute the theoretical basis for work on how messages concerning traffic safety should be presented to different audiences. A series of closely related investigations were carried out, three of more central importance than the others. The first – a qualitative analysis of different target groups – involved fifty conversational interviews conducted with young men and women 18-24 years old. In the later quantitative study some 900 persons completed questionnaires. This sample consisted entirely young men, age 18-24. The third empirical study investigated how different messages appeal to different target groups. The main result of these studies was the classification of young male road-users in four target groups. These correspond to the four cells in a typology, the dimensions of which are attitude toward speeding and view regarding the primary source of risk. The four ideal types that the groups represent were those termed: adventure seekers, risk takers, responsibility takers and security seekers. The categorization ended in a quantitative measurement instrument for the classification of traffic participants. The thesis ends up in some recommendations how messages to different target groups could be presented.
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- Negretti, Raffaella, 1971
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Authoring for language education on the Internet
- 1998
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In: Authoring for Internet education: Products, experiences, proposals. Conference proceedings. Pescara, Italy: Libreria Dell’Università Editrice.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)
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- Jonsson, Sverker, 1947, et al.
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Ekonomisk-historiska studier av massmedier
- 1988
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In: Ekonomiska perspektiv i forskning om massmedier. - Göteborg : Nordicom-Sverige. ; , s. 59-72, s. 59-72
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- Jönsson, Linda, 1950-
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Polisförhöret som kommunikationssituation
- 1988
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Book (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Inom ramen för projektet "Framgång och motgång i dialoger" (jfr Aronsson & Linell, 1985) har studier gjorts av kommunikationen mellan professionella och lekmän i bl a rättegångar, närmare bestämt handläggningen av vissa typer av brottmål. Första ledet i undersökningen har behandlat huvudförhandlingar vid domstol (tingsrätt) (se Aronsson m fl, 1987, Adelswärd m fl, 1987 och Adelswärd m fl, 1988) 1. Den föreliggande studien behandlar ett annat led i samma ärendegång, nämligen polisens förhör med den misstänkte som en del av förundersökningen inför ett eventuellt åtal.Arbetets syfte har varit att studera och beskriva kommunikationssituationer från kommunikationsteoretiska, samtalsanalytiska och sociolingvistiska utgångspunkter. Några primärt juridiska, kriminologiska eller rättssociologiska perspektiv har inte anlagts (även om arbetet kan ha relevans för rättssociologin, och vice versa).De olika delprojektens övergripande syfte har varit att studera dialoger med utgångspunkt i situationer där den ena parten i samtalet har en dominerande roll i kraft av högre utbildning och/eller större erfarenhet av situationen, dvs situationer där representanter för t ex en myndighet för en dialog med en lekman eller en representant"för allmänheten. Både rättegångsförhandlingama och polisförhören tillhör den nämnda typen av situationer och de har många gemensamma drag. De är båda led i brottmålsprocessen och styrs av de allmänna processprinciperna (jfr tex .Klette, 1976: 31-38). Dialogerna utgörs i båda fallen av en form av samtal där representanter för de rättskipande myndigheterna, genom att höra en enskild människa, försöker utreda och eventuellt fastställa dennes skuld i anslutning till ett begånget brott. Trots dessa principiella likheter fmns det naturligtvis stora skillnader mellan de båda situationerna och vissa jämförelser kan hjälpa till att belysa vad som är specifika förutsättningar för kommunikationen inom respektive situation.För en mera utförlig och systematisk genomgång av de teoretiska utgångspunkterna och en översikt över tidigare forskning inom området hänvisas till Jönsson (1988). Nedan följer en kortfattad redovisning av de huvudperspektiv utifrån vilka arbetet har bedrivits.
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- Bergquist, Magnus, 1960, et al.
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Genres in Action: Negotiating Genres in Practice
- 1999
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In: Proceedings of the Thirty-second Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). - Los Alamitos, Calif. : IEEE Computer Society. - 0769500013 ; 5
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this paper we present the initial findings of a genre based case study at a large Swedish company, with a record of early use of internal email (1982). The design of the particular email system was closely mapped to the organizational hierarchy. One of our informants kept one week of incoming email messages. We then asked questions about each message and how it related to the work of the informant, and to the organization. Based on the messages and the interviews we clustered the messages in different genres. Most literature of genres of organizational communication has focused on the genres themselves, e.g. email messages constituting different instances of genres. We found however that many messages, rather than being instances of genres, were part of informal conversations. In these conversations, however, it was common to discuss and negotiate which genres where appropriate to use in different situations.
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- Dittrich, Yvonne
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Computeranwendungen und sprachlicher Kontext. Zu den Wechselwirkungen zwischen normaler und formaler Sprache bei Einsatz und Entwicklung von Software
- 1997
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Menschliche Sprache wird in der traditionellen Softwaretechnik als Problem betrachtet. Sie gilt als ungenuegend zur Spezifikation und Entwicklung von Computeranwendungen. Die Flexibilität und Offenheit normaler Sprache ermöglicht es auf der anderen Seite, ueber immer neue Bereiche auf verschiedenste Art zu kommunizieren und zu reflektieren. Wie kann diese kreative Seite menschlicher Sprache bei Entwicklung und Gestaltung von Software beruecksichtigt werden? Anhand des Begriffs der symbolischen Maschine von Sybille Krämer und der Sprachtheorien Humboldts und Wittgensteins werden die im Kontext der Argumentation wichtigen Eigenschaften formaler und normaler Sprache herausgearbeitet. Ansätze zur Gestaltung von Computeranwendungen, die ihre Einbettung in nrmale Sprache beruecksichtigen, und zur Einbeziehung von normlaer Sprache bei der Softwareentwicklung werden aufgezeigt.
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- Dittrich, Yvonne
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Shopping Web-shopping Web-shop Web-selling Selling Teaching Software Development together with Work Practice Studies
- 1999
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this article I want to share the experiences of developing an interdisciplinary course which brings together design oriented work practice studies and software development. The development and the teaching of this course took place as part of the study program 'People, Computers, and Work' bringing together human work science and computer science. To relate work practice studies and software development in a fruitful way, we had to change not only the organization of the projects and the layout of the course. It required also relating paradigms and methods on both sides. The teachers had to learn about each other's disciplines, too. An example of one of the projects - a web-shop for stationary - illustrates the way the students worked. Us teachers learned also a lot: Both ethnographic methods to study the workplace and software development methods change if really brought together. The variety of ways of relating work practice studies to software development surprised us. We explored common themes relevant for the interdisciplinary practice. And we learned a lot about how to teach this kind of projects.
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- Jonsson, Sverker, 1947
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Värmlandspressen under rekordåren
- 1999
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In: Folk och press i rörelse/redaktörer Karl Erik Gustafsson & Per Rydén. - Göteborg : Nordicom-Sverige. ; , s. 65-77
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- Hallengren, Anders, 1950-
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Kina inför 80-talet : förändringens år
- 1980
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In: Värld och Vetande. - Västra Frölunda : Värld och Vetande. - 0346-4873. ; 29:3, s. 85-93
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Report on the great changes taking place in the People's Republic of China in 1979.
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- Eriksson, Darek M., et al.
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Organization information system : extending organizational cognition through intelligent artifacts
- 1996
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In: Cybernetics and systems. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0196-9722 .- 1087-6553. ; 27:3, s. 235-264
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The question of investigation is, What can intelligent artifacts mean to a command system? By means of a theoretical synthesis of previous works, the present work starts with an epistemological discussion focused on systems thinking. With the organization in focus, an extrospective approach is taken in which a global discussion results in some implications for the organizational system design. This system is considered as a sociotechnological system; consequently, the nature of systems (i.e., complexity) and the nature of human beings (i.e., parts of the systems and who are to be served by the artifacts) are discussed. The result argues that intelligent artifacts can extend the intelligent behavior of organizations. Examples of computer system architecture and software architecture are given.
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- Cronholm, Stefan, 1957-
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Metodverktyg och användbarhet : en studie av datorstödd metodbaserad systemutveckling
- 1998
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This thesis describes usability goals for method tools. Method tools are a type of CASE-tool aiming to support computer- and method-based information systems development. The aim of the thesis is to develop knowledge in order to suggest recommendations for achieving more usable method tools. The thesis takes an action perspective. An important starting-point in identifying usability goals are the existing modelling acts in the system development process specifying requirements for how method tools shall be developed.The thesis is performed as a prototyping approach embracing three steps. Output from a previous step is used as input to the following step. Further the thesis is based on studies of real cases where actors have interacted with method tools. In order to gain data I have used questionnaires, interviews and observations. The thesis embraces 12 usability goals for method tools. These goals are empirically generated and theoretically grounded. The identified usability goals are primary oriented towards the use situation system developer, method tool and task. Several usability goals can be characterised as more general and therefore are valid in areas beyond this use situation.The main contributions of this thesis are recommendations for developing method tools, a goal-means hierarchy presenting a composite description of usability attributes for method tools, characterising knowledge in a taxonomic form and a model which describes how modelling acts are related to usability goals.
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- Cronholm, Stefan, et al.
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On the Concept of Method in Information Systems Development
- 1999
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In: Proceedings of the 22nd Information Systems Research In Scandinavia (IRIS 22), Keuruu, Finland, August 7–10, 1999.. - : Linköping University Electronic Press.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- System development methods are often used as aids during the development of information systems. This paper examines the concept of method and other related notions in order to achieve a better understanding of their meaning and structure. The motivation for this paper is the emerging flora of different and related concepts and thus a need to sort things out. The main contribution of the paper is a conceptual model describing how the method concept and other related notions relate.
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