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  title info:
    title: Toward an anthropology of graphing
    sub title: semiotic and activity-theoretic perspectives
  name:
    name part: Roth, Wolff-Michael
    name part: 1953-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2003
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xi, 342 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: Toward an Anthropology of Graphing: Semiotic and Activity-Theoretic Perspectives presents the results of several studies involving scientists and technicians. In Part One of the book, "Graphing in Captivity", the author describes and analyses the interpretation scientists volunteered given graphs that had been culled from an introductory course and textbook in ecology. Surprisingly, the scientists were not the experts that the author expected them to be on the basis of the existing expert-novice literature. The section ends with the analysis of graphs that the scientists had culled from their own work. Here, they articulated a tremendous amount of background understanding before talking about the content of their graphs. In Part Two, "Graphing in the Wild", the author reports on graph usage in three different workplaces based on his ethnographic research among scientists and technicians. Based on these data, the author concludes that graphs and graphing are meaningful to the extent that they are deeply embedded in and connected to the familiarity with the workplace.
  note: by Wolff-Michael Roth.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Graphic methods
  subject:
    topic: Graphic methods
  classification: QA90 .R68 2003eb
  classification: 511/.5
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    title info:
      title: Toward an anthropology of graphing
    name:
      name part: Roth, Wolff-Michael, 1953-
    origin info:
      publisher: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2003
    identifier: (DLC) 2003051697
    identifier: (OCoLC)52208435
  identifier: 9789401002233 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9401002231 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9781402013768
  identifier: 1402013760
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    record content source: AU@
    record creation date: 121227
    record change date: 20260423142516.9
    record identifier: in00003552844
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng