Dear Sue,
I've just joined the list and am presently lurking to see 'what's what'
& if I have anything to add. Mostly, I don't - I'm a sort of
'list-jackdaw' looking for silver to loot!
My reason for joining relates to a current research project which is
focussed on the impact of eMail on work processes & work organisation -
which, I thought might be viewed as critical to 'writing & digital
life'. While I am interested in the impact on the patterns of discourse
generated by eMail as a novel medium - and there is quite a lot of
research published on this aspect (e.g. on writing styles etc) - my
analytic focus is on the seemingly more mundane i.e. what has eMail
'done' to us? How has it reconfigured our work processes? How has its
use by organisations affected how we interact; how we are now controlled
etc. Most commentary/research takes eMail for granted - it is
constituted & projected primarily as a liberating & essentially benign
medium - it permits us to 'conquer time' & 'colonise space'. I'm not
convinced of this.
So, if you need a topic for the next month - even though it sounds far
less exciting than some of the threads I've followed so far - can I
suggest: what has been the impact of eMail on our work processes?
And, if anyone knows any useful references on the topic, I'd be very
grateful ...
PS My primary research interests these days are on what's come to be
called 'organizational discourse analysis' (a field which includes
narrative analysis & storytelling). Some list menbers might be
interested in a biennial conference we run - the next one will be in
July 2006 in Amsterdam. Details of the last one - held in 2004 - can
be found at:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk//depsta/pse/mancen/events/org_disc_6.htm
** If anyone would like to be added to our conference mailing list
please send your email address to me off-list. **
Best,
Tom.
Sue Thomas wrote:
>Just to say I've received no nominations for next month's topic so I won't
>set up a poll.
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