Talking work: language-games, organisations and computer supported cooperative work

Computer Supported Cooperative Work: CSCW: An International Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 215-237

  Crabtree, Andy ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GRAMMARS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

CUSTOMER SERVICE SYSTEM; DISTRIBUTED ORGANIZATIONS; ETHNOGRAPHY; LANGUAGE GAMES; MAPPING GRAMMAR;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 0033901141     PISSN: 09259724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008708914285     Document Type: Article

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