Abstract
Extra-institutional individuals are individuals who work outside of a bureaucracy. I argue that, in the absence of a bureaucracy organizing their work, the professional communication of extrainstitutional individuals is organized by the problems they are trying to solve. Grouping extra-institutional individuals by the problems they are trying to solve instead of their field or area allows for deeper analysis of the communication needed in individual fields. The problems-based approach also allows comparison of extra-institutional individuals across fields, which can result in interdisciplinary knowledge sharing. This interdisciplinary knowledge sharing can help designers of communication to better understand their extra-institutional users and develop tools appropriate to the needs of audiences across fields with shared problems.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | SIGDOC 2017 - 35th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication |
| Editors | Elizabeth Keller |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery, Inc |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450351607 |
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| State | Published - Aug 11 2017 |
| Event | 35th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2017 - Halifax, Canada Duration: Aug 11 2017 → Aug 13 2017 |
Other
| Other | 35th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2017 |
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| Country/Territory | Canada |
| City | Halifax |
| Period | 8/11/17 → 8/13/17 |
Keywords
- Extra-institutional
- Musicians
- Organization
- Problems
- Professional communication
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Hardware and Architecture
- Software
- Information Systems