TY - GEN
T1 - Exploring a sustainable and public information ecology
AU - McNely, Brian J.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - This article explores the design and execution of an intentionally public information ecology by focusing on three of the primary communication activities (blogging, videos, and microblogging) taking place immediately before, during, and after a small international conference of digital media professionals. Drawing on an activity theory framework for analyzing data collected via an exploratory version of contextual inquiry, the author describes two interrelated categories of stabilizing moves for fomenting a public information ecology: those driven by the organization to maintain and publicize a coherent organizational identity narrative, and those driven by conference participants that sometimes diverge from that organizational narrative. Analyzing these two broad categories of stabilizing moves yields insights into how online writing practices may help foster effective and sustainable information ecologies.
AB - This article explores the design and execution of an intentionally public information ecology by focusing on three of the primary communication activities (blogging, videos, and microblogging) taking place immediately before, during, and after a small international conference of digital media professionals. Drawing on an activity theory framework for analyzing data collected via an exploratory version of contextual inquiry, the author describes two interrelated categories of stabilizing moves for fomenting a public information ecology: those driven by the organization to maintain and publicize a coherent organizational identity narrative, and those driven by conference participants that sometimes diverge from that organizational narrative. Analyzing these two broad categories of stabilizing moves yields insights into how online writing practices may help foster effective and sustainable information ecologies.
KW - Blogging
KW - Information ecologies
KW - Knowledge work
KW - Microblogging
KW - Phatic
KW - Tummeling
KW - Twitter
KW - Writing
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U2 - 10.1145/1878450.1878468
DO - 10.1145/1878450.1878468
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78650887159
SN - 9781450304030
T3 - SIGDOC 2010 - Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication
SP - 103
EP - 108
BT - SIGDOC 2010 - Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication
T2 - 28th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2010
Y2 - 27 September 2010 through 29 September 2010
ER -