Do categories have politics?
@article{Suchman2004DoCH,
title={Do categories have politics?},
author={Lucy A. Suchman},
journal={Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)},
year={2004},
volume={2},
pages={177-190}
}Drawing on writings within the CSCW community and on recent social theory, this paper proposes that the adoption of speech act theory as a foundation for system design carries with it an agenda of discipline and control over organization members' actions. [] Key Method I then turn to some observations on the politics of categorization and, with that framework as back-ground, consider the attempt, throughthe coordinator, to implement a technological system for intention-accounting within organizations…
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