Open AccessRepresentations at Work
Author(s) -
Martin Meedom Nielsen
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
outlines/critical social studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1904-0210
pISSN - 1399-5510
DOI - 10.7146/ocps.v5i2.2156
Subject(s) - socially distributed cognition , performative utterance , workflow , cognition , work (physics) , computer science , cognitive science , knowledge management , computation , information processing , management science , data science , psychology , epistemology , cognitive psychology , engineering , database , programming language , mechanical engineering , philosophy , neuroscience
This paper argues that “distributed cognition” facilitates a framework for studying aspects of organizations as socio-technical systems. An approach studying tool use and workflows is laid out and utilized in an analysis of information processing at a post office. Finally, some implications are presented – for organizational as well as cognitive studies. Research on performative representations is called for and, consequently, a widening of the cognition-as-computation framework is suggested.