Woodward Paths: Motorizing Space

Rice, Jeff

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“…Derek Van Ittersum (2013) analyzed the technical communication in Do-It-Yourself and craft instructions. Jeff Rice (2009) theorized folksonomies of technical communication to argue that the “motorization of space” allows for flexible ways of defining mobile information and mobile work. Building on Herbert Moorhouse’s (1991) work on the hot rod community, Glen Fuller (2013) explored enthusiasm and its role in spreading “know-how.” Hannah Bellwoar (2012) researched how patients adapt, repurpose, and reproduce official health communication for their own purposes.…”

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The Golden Age of Technical Communication

Kimball

2016

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication

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“…3 See: Scott (2003); Windsor (2006); Swarts (2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2014); Slattery (2005, 2007); Spinuzzi (2003, 2005, 2008); Potts (2008, 2009, 2010, 2013); Graham (2009); Fleckenstein, Spinuzzi, Rickly, & Papper, (2008); Rice (2009, 2012); Salvo, Pflugfelder, & Prenosil (2010); Potts & Jones (2011); and Fraiberg (2013)..…”

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Failure Matters: Conflicting Practices in a High-Tech Case

Pflugfelder

2016

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication

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Technical communication researchers have studied failure through a number of different case studies, though none more often than the space shuttle Challenger explosion. While scholars have offered several explanations in the intervening three decades, this work often treats the disaster as a failure of organizational communication, a failure of the material O-ring, or a failure of two discourse communities, engineers and managers, to engage in mutually comprehensible forms of meaningful deliberation. This essay hypothesizes that the real cause of failure was neither positivist nor social constructionist in nature, but discursive-material. I offer discussion of the Challenger case in order to frame a different study of project failure and show that complex technical projects fail for a number discursive-material reasons. Employing assumptions from actor–network theory and Barad’s theory of agential realism, this essay establishes a basis for how to read the Challenger disaster as one of competing and unresolved “conceptual structures of practice.” I then take this framework and apply it to a case study of a transportation project at a large, Midwestern research university. This project, the electric personal transportation vehicle, failed because competing structures of practice generated powerful actants that mattered in different ways. Insufficient project management activities also contributed to failure; the conclusion identifies concepts technical communicators can employ in establishing more effective project management strategies that work to resolve competing actants.

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Visualizing and Tracing: Research Methodologies for the Study of Networked, Sociotechnical Activity, Otherwise Known as Knowledge Work

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2014

Technical Communication Quarterly

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Woodward Paths: Motorizing Space

Cited by 7 publications

References 9 publications

The Golden Age of Technical Communication

The Golden Age of Technical Communication

Failure Matters: Conflicting Practices in a High-Tech Case

Visualizing and Tracing: Research Methodologies for the Study of Networked, Sociotechnical Activity, Otherwise Known as Knowledge Work

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