Triangles and tribulations : translations, betrayals, and the making of cultural-historical activity theory / Clay Spinuzzi.

Author/creator Spinuzzi, Clay author.
Format Book
PublicationCambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2025]
Descriptionviii, 308 pages : illustrtaions ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesActing with technology
Acting with technology. ^A610855
Contents Method and research object -- Translations and betrayals -- Chat's generations -- or strands, or waves? -- Vygotsky's chat: Marxist psychology before the great terror -- Leontiev's chat: Marxist psychology after the great terror -- Westernized chat in 1987: an interventionist design approach -- Interlude: chat as a sociocognitive base for North American writing studies -- Engeström's "third-generation" chat: an organizational sociology -- Engeström's "fourth-generation" chat: an implementation of public policy -- The scope of the expanding object -- The scope of the unit of analysis -- The diffusion and translation of chat.
Abstract "This is a history of CHAT (Cultural-Historical Activity Theory): where it came from, how it developed, what challenges it faces when applied to technologically mediated post-bureaucratic work, and how we might further develop it to better address those challenges"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Spinuzzi, Clay Triangles and tribulations Cambridge : The MIT Press, 2025 9780262382779
LCCN 2024030351
ISBN9780262552172
ISBN0262552175 paperback
ISBNelectronic book
ISBNelectronic book

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