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On the Concept of Intrinsic Coordination

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As indicated above, one of the main research issues in CSCW is the understanding of how cooperative work is coordinated and integrated by using artifacts. This issue has often been cast as a question of exploring how articulation work is practiced and supported by way of coordinative artifacts. A series of focused, in-depth field studies have been undertaken with the specific purpose of investigating how the distributed activities of cooperative work arrangements are articulated and, in particular, how prescribed artifacts are devised, appropriated and used for these purposes (e.g. Carstensen and Sørensen 1996; Schmidt and Bannon 1992).

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    According to the Oxford dictionary ‘supra’ designates a prefix used in describing a phenomenon that is transcending, before or above something else. It originates in the Latin supra ‘above, beyond, before in time.’

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    These observation and ideas draws on findings and analyses presented in articles published over the last couple of years (i.e. Christensen 2007, 2008, 2012).

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    We could note that today the cathedral is considered one of the most beautiful examples of gothic architecture (Turnbull 1993).

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    Not considering socialising in the for example the lunchroom or outside work.

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Christensen, L.R. (2013). On the Concept of Intrinsic Coordination. In: Coordinative Practices in the Building Process. Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4117-4_8

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