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Textual Objects

Accounting for the Role of Texts in the Everyday Life of Complex Organizations

CHERYL GEISLER

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Texts function as both means and motive for human activity in the same way that other technological objects function: They move from private mediational means to public motive as part of the shifting consciousness that sustains the everyday life of complex organizations. In complex organizations, the status of text, the condition of public visibility, is an achievement rather than a given. Seeing texts as objects calls our attention to a range of textual phenomena associated with the advent of information technologies. In infomated environments, the virtual states of textual objects are becoming ever more ubiquitous and consequential. A sample analysis of the texts produced and used in the context of the new technology of personal digital assistants (PDAs) suggests, for example, that such "ITexts" may facilitate the migration of the documentary reality of the workplace into the home.

Written Communication, Vol. 18, No. 3, 296-325 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/0741088301018003003
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