Modeling genre ecologies

ACM SIGDOC Annual International Conference on Computer Documentation, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 200-207

  Spinuzzi, Clay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity theory; Compound mediation; Genre ecology; Genre tracing

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; ECOLOGY; HEURISTIC METHODS; SYSTEM PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION;

GENRE ECOLOGY;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 0038303610     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/584955.584985     Document Type: Conference Paper

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