PowerPoint has become an integral part of academic and professional life across the globe. In this book, Hubert Knoblauch offers the first complete analysis of the PowerPoint presentation as a form of communication. Knoblauch charts the diffusion of PowerPoint and explores its significance as a...

In the 1970s, Xerox pioneered the involvement of social science researchers in technology design and in developing better ways of working. The Xerox legacy is a hybrid methodology that combines an ethnographic interest in direct observation in settings of interest with an ethnomethodological...

Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Technology and social action -- 1.1 Computers and situated conduct -- 1.2 Technological innovation and collaborative work -- 1.3 Naturalistic studies of work and technology -- 1.4 Technologies and social...