Social Science, Technical Systems, and Cooperative Work: Beyond the Great Divide (Computers, Cognition, and Work)

by WilliamTurner (Editor), Les Gasser (Editor), Geoffrey Bowker (Editor), William Turner (Editor), Geoffrey Bowker (Editor), SusanLeighStar (Editor), Susan Leigh Star (Editor), Les Gasser (Editor)

• New

  Hardcover
  1997

  $169.48

  This text addresses how to bridge the great divide between the approaches of systems developers and those of social scientists to computer supported co-operative work (CSCW). It argues that the social and technical are irremediably linked in practice, and so the great divide should not exist.