Dyslogistic Information Ecologies
通过一家企业内的两个民族志案例,探讨组织互动中的贬义信息生态,指出信息生态可能带来复杂、模棱两可甚至压迫性的互动,而非必然促进组织学习。
This article explores the dyslogistics (spoken badly/pertaining to dysfunctioning communication) of organizational interaction. Dyslogistics are to be opposed to eulogistics ( dys + (eu)logistic). The term is attributed to Jeremy Bentham ( Webster's Dictionary , 1913 edn). Two ethnographic cases within a single business organization are presented to explore what Nardi and O'Day call an information ecology . But while their information ecologies seem self-evidently to lead to organizational learning, ours will point to complex and often equivocal interactions, sometimes even to oppressiveness .