Tracing Genres Through Organizations: A Sociocultural Approach to Information Design

by Clay Spinuzzi

Book Overview

A sociocultural study of workers' ad hoc genre innovations and their significance for information design. In Tracing Genres through Organizations , Clay Spinuzzi examines the everyday improvisations by workers who deal with designed information and shows how understanding this impromptu creation can improve information design. He argues that the traditional user-centered approach to design does not take into consideration the unofficial genres that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262194910
• ISBN13: 9780262194914
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher