Can Meaning Make Cents? Making the Meaning of Work Salient for Us Manufacturing Workers

Meaning-making: Issues of Analysis in Memory-work

At the core of memory-work is the making of meaning from a collective reading of the memories of individuals’ lived experiences. Memory-work enables many voices to be heard in the understanding and theorising of the cross-woven threads of embodied experience. The methodology, however, confronts memory-workers with the complexity of moving between the subjectivity of their collective experiences...

Information, Work and Meaning

Making meaning happen

What is it for a sound or gesture to have a meaning, and how does it come to have one? In this paper, a range of simulations are used to extend the tradition of theories of meaning as use. The authors work throughout with large spatialized arrays of sessile individuals in an environment of wandering food sources and predators. Individuals gain points by feeding and lose points when they are hit...

Meaning Making in VMT

Meaning making is central to the interactions that take place in CSCL settings. The collaborative construction of shared meaning is a complex process that has not previously been analyzed in detail despite the fact that it is often acknowledged as being the distinguishing element in CSCL. Here, a three-minute excerpt from a discussion among three students is considered in some detail. The stude...

on the comparison of keyword and semantic-context methods of learning new vocabulary meaning

the rationale behind the present study is that particular learning strategies produce more effective results when applied together. the present study tried to investigate the efficiency of the semantic-context strategy alone with a technique called, keyword method. to clarify the point, the current study seeked to find answer to the following question: are the keyword and semantic-context metho...