Becoming Tool
May 27, 2003
In a draft accepted for the 8th International Working Conference on the Language-Action Perspective on Communication Modelling AldoDeMoor and Mark Aakhus present a useful definition of tool: (0000TG)
...a plethora of technologies exist that are not necessarily tools. A technology only is a tool if it serves the purposes of the community in which it is used. (0000TH)
This model helps to emphasize the particular task needs of a community instead of a technological prescription that may or may not help. On the flip side it also helps to show that some technological efforts while inadequate in some environments may be helpful in others. (0000TI)
A PDF of the paper is available. (0000TJ)
Aldo pointed out the paper during some philosophical mumbo jumbo about Wikis working in some groups and not others. (0000TK)
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