Features and Contexts in Technology Research: A Modest Proposal for Research and Reporting
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Features and Contexts in Technology Research: A Modest Proposal for Research and Reporting
Technology research has long faced difficulties in consistently defining technology, establishing cause-effect relations, and generating research results that generalize across technologies, users, contexts, and time (Barley, 1998). In this essay we (1) identify three of the many contributors to these difficulties, (2) mention some ambitious responses that have been suggested in the literature,...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1083-6101,1083-6101
DOI: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2009.01469.x