Interruption events and sensemaking processes: A narrative analysis of older people's relationships with computers

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Interruption events and sensemaking processes: A narrative analysis of older people's relationships with computers

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This thesis provides a situated understanding of the ways in which the reality of a new technology is socially constructed. In particular, it examines how members of the aged interpretive community made sense of the computer as an interruption event, a technology not yet routinised as part of their everyday taken-for-granted reality, and needing to be consciously considered and evaluated to make it understandable. Members' sensemaking is studied as a narrative process in which meaning is prod...

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Thesis

Thesis level

Doctoral

Date created

2006

Creator

Richardson, Margaret Ann

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https://hdl.handle.net/10289/2626

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interruption events / sensemaking / narrative analysis / computers / aged persons

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