Conference paper
Barometers of institutional inflexibility: using the movement through timespace conceptualizations of Dervin’s sense-making methodology
ICA
International Communication Society Conference: Keywords in Communication, 59th (Chicago, Illinois, 21/05/2009 - 25/05/2009)
21/05/2009
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Abstract
Particular kinds of institutional structures imply/enforce typical kinds of communicating practices and related experiences of power. This paper suggests that the “situation-movement-states” categories as identified in Dervin’s Sense-Making Methodology (SMM) could be understood as a phenomenology of power. I compare the range of “situation-movement-states” identified in people’s descriptions of their conflict experiences in two collectivities: in Paganism, a dispersed and nodally organized movement which resists high level hierarchical ordering; and in Catholicism, a hierarchical, tightly structured communicating environment.
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- Title
- Barometers of institutional inflexibility: using the movement through timespace conceptualizations of Dervin’s sense-making methodology
- Creators
- Angela Coco
- Conference
- International Communication Society Conference: Keywords in Communication, 59th (Chicago, Illinois, 21/05/2009 - 25/05/2009)
- Publisher
- ICA; Washington, DC
- Identifiers
- 1488; 991012821950902368
- Academic Unit
- School of Arts and Social Sciences
- Resource Type
- Conference paper