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Discourse is critical to organizations as well as to information technology in a variety of ways, as the literature attests (Alvesson and Karreman 2000; Beech 2000; Benders et al. 1998; Button and Sharrock 1995; Oswick et al. 2000; Rachel and Woolgar 1994). But there is an interesting new catch: the ways we talk about technology, and the content of the technology itself, are increasingly multimodal,involving graphical as well as textual elements (Kress et al. 1997).
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Ackerman, M., Yakura, E.K., Pentland, B.T., Qureshi, S. (2003). Visual Elements in the Discourse on Information Technology. In: Wynn, E.H., Whitley, E.A., Myers, M.D., DeGross, J.I. (eds) Global and Organizational Discourse about Information Technology. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 110. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35634-1_25
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