Saturday, October 15, 2011

Mighty Digests # 19: RAPLEY, Exploring conversations about and with documents

Article: Rapley, T. (2007). Exploring conversations about and with documents (Chapter 7). In Doing conversation, discourse and document analysis.


This chapter focuses on “the role of documents and texts in our everyday life and the various institutions we engage with.”

“When talking about documents-in-use, you should focus on questions about the immediate here-and-now context.”

Documents (whether paper or computer-based) and related technologies (of bookmarks, pens, highlighters, photocopiers, computers, printers, etc.) both constrain and enable our actions and interactions.”

“Texts are transformed in and through the actions of reading them out.”

“Seeing and knowing are not simply a product of inner psychological processes but rather intimately tied to complex local and situated social actions and interactions.”

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