CCR760 – A World Without Bosses? : Distributed Capitalism & Net Work
The first time I read through chapter five in Eileen’s class I became very, very frightened. I suppose my initial terror was directly tied to my now slowly deteriorating allegiance to Marxist modes of material production and the realities capitalist enterprise in the West’s progressively post-industrial age. The more and more I read about the changing nature of work in the 21st century – especially with respect to Zuboff’s... Read More
CCR691 – Network – Ch. 6 – for Comment
Spinuzzi, Clay. Network: Theorizing Knowledge Work in Communications. New York: Cambridge UP, 2008. Chapter Six: Is Our Network Learning? Summary: In this chapter S. discusses how the nature of work has changed fundamentally in the age of informational capitalism. By referring to workers as “deskilled” (Haraway), “dividuals” (Deleuze), “reskilled” (Castells), and “lifelong learners” (Zuboff and Maxmin), S. points out that the... Read More
CCR691 – Final Project – Spinuzzi – TEXTS
Spinuzzi, Clay. “TEXTS OF OUR INSTITUTIONAL LIVES: Accessibility Scans and Institutional Activity: An Activity Theory Analysis.” College English 10.2 (2007): 189-201. Print. Spinuzzi defines “web accessibility” as “the ability for any user to read and understand a website with appropriate adaptive technology If a user is visually imparied, for instance, she or he should still be able to ‘read’ the site by listening to a... Read More
CCR691 – Final Project – Rivers
Rivers, Nathaniel A. “Some Assembly Required: The Latourian Collective and the Banal Work of Technical and Professional Communication.” Journal of Technical Writing & Communication 38 3 (2008): 189-206. Print. Rivers wants to address how collecting technologies into temporary and permanent strucutres to address the common world for the common good. For Rivers, this should be the goal that technical and professional communicators... Read More
Network – Spinuzzi
Spinuzzi, Clay. Network: Theorizing Knowledge Work in Communications. New York: Cambridge UP, 2008. Chapter One: Networks, Genres, and Four Little Disruptions In this introductory chapter Spinuzzi does a lot of definitional work in order to inform the rest of his study. S. is an activity theory researcher at heart; however, he also sees that AT has severely limited itself. To understand and work past these limitations, Spinuzzi recommends... Read More
