Segmented Institutionalism as a Perspective for Understanding Family Technologies
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Designing family technologies is a dynamic challenge that may benefit from an equally dynamic theoretical perspective. We propose adapting the paradigm of segmented institutionalism, previously applied to the analysis of organizational work, to investigations of family technologies. We provide an example of our own work designing technology with divorced families to highlight this perspective’s focus on multiple stakeholder perspectives and design trade-offs. Author
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