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Fragmented Exchange: Disarticulation and the Need for Regionalized Communication Spaces
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1995
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Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
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This paper relates the discussion of articualtion work (and of siarticulation) to issues of the creation and control of collective communication spaces. Four differnet types of settings are examined - occupationally segregated terrains, emergency situations, scarce-resource settings and performance-intensive settings. What is articualted in such settings is seen as depending on the properties of the communication spaces actors build their zoning and contextuality; while instances of disarticualtion within this space can be interpreted as a consequence of both regionalisation and/or a deternation or even breakdown of envisioning and interralating. CSCW design needs to take account of the regionalised character of "real world" communications by offering tools for creating a corresponding multiplicity of communication spaces.