Books published in the Acting With Technology Series are concerned with the study of meaningful human activity as it is mediated by tools and
technologies. The Series has a broad interdisciplinary scope. While grounded in science and technology studies, human-computer interaction, and computer-supported collaborative work, the series aims to bring together and mutually inform conceptual developments and empirical explorations of the technological mediation of human activity in these and other fields such as sociology, communication, education, and organizational studies. Acting With Technology volumes encompass a diversity of theoretical frameworks including activity theory, actor network theory, distributed cognition, and other practice-based theories developed through ethnomethodological and grounded theory approaches. The books investigate tool-mediated processes of working, organizing, playing, and learning in and across a wide variety of social settings, with a special focus on significant contemporary issues related to emerging technology-related trends in culture and society.
Our goal is to publish the best new books—both research monographs and
textbooks—that contribute to a discussion of technology as a crucial facet of human activity enacted in rich social and physical contexts. We are especially interested in manuscripts that integrate theoretical or disciplinary streams, and/or are based on research that combines macro-micro levels of analysis.
For inquiries regarding publication in the series, please contact a series editor or Marguerite Avery (617.253.1653) at The MIT Press.
Publications 1 - 9 of 9
Acting with Technology Activity Theory and Interaction Design Victor Kaptelinin and Bonnie A. Nardi
A systematic presentation of activity theory, its application to interaction design, and an argument for the development of activity theory as a basis for understanding how people interact with technology. Cloth / October 2006 Price $38.00 | ADD TO CART
Acting with Technology Activity Theory and Interaction Design Victor Kaptelinin and Bonnie A. Nardi
A systematic presentation of activity theory, its application to interaction design, and an argument for the development of activity theory as a basis for understanding how people interact with technology. Paper / September 2009 Price $18.00 | ADD TO CART
Activity-Centered Design An Ecological Approach to Designing Smart Tools and Usable Systems Geri Gay and Helene Hembrooke
An examination of the shift to context-based human-computer interaction design practice, illuminated by the concepts of Activity Theory and related methods. Cloth / March 2004 Price $35.00 | ADD TO CART
Group Cognition Computer Support for Building Collaborative Knowledge Gerry Stahl
Exploring the software design, social practices, and collaboration theory that would be needed to support group cognition—collective knowledge that is constructed by small groups online. Cloth / April 2006 Price $47.00 | ADD TO CART
Tracing Genres through Organizations A Sociocultural Approach to Information Design Clay Spinuzzi
A sociocultural study of workers' ad hoc genre innovations and their significance for information design. Cloth / October 2003 Price $40.00 | ADD TO CART
Web Campaigning Kirsten Foot and Steven M. Schneider; Foreword by Michael Cornfield
The evolution of electoral politics on the Web, based on extensive analysis of hundreds of campaign sites produced by candidates in U.S. elections in 2000, 2002, and 2004; a practice-based theory approach to understanding the relationship between the Web and electoral politics. Paper / November 2006 Price $28.00 | ADD TO CART
Web Campaigning Kirsten Foot and Steven M. Schneider; Foreword by Michael Cornfield
The evolution of electoral politics on the Web, based on extensive analysis of hundreds of campaign sites produced by candidates in U.S. elections in 2000, 2002, and 2004; a practice-based theory approach to understanding the relationship between the Web and electoral politics. Cloth / November 2006 Price $60.00 | ADD TO CART
