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|BibType=ARTICLE
 
|BibType=ARTICLE
 
|Author(s)=Andrew P. Carlin;
 
|Author(s)=Andrew P. Carlin;
|Title=Observation and membership categorization: recognizing
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|Title=Pro forma arrangements: The visual availability of textual artefacts
“Normal appearances” in public space
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|Editor(s)=Mike Ball;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; MCA; Normality;  
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|Tag(s)=EMCA; Text; Artefacts; Institutional;  
 
|Key=Carlin2003b
 
|Key=Carlin2003b
 
|Year=2003
 
|Year=2003
|Journal=Journal of Mundane Behavior
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|Journal=Visual Studies
|Volume=4
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|Volume=18
 
|Number=1
 
|Number=1
|Pages=77-91
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|Pages=6-20
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|URL=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1472586032000100038#
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|DOI=10.1080/1472586032000100038
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|Series=Special Issue: Image Work
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|Abstract=In this paper I discuss “at-a-glance” properties of textual materials in a series of work environments, including hospitals, libraries and ticket offices. I describe how members visually orient to mundane textual materials (“pro formas”) as constituents of courses of action. From the analysis of texts-in-action, I suggest that the organization of administrative texts, including blood-test requests and missing-item reports, is amenable to formal descriptions (“apostolic function”, “career”); and situated descriptions (sequencing of activities and use of membership categories). Information is rendered visually available through (a) the spatial arrangements of textual artefacts in social settings; (b) the spatial arrangements or layout of specific documents. These “visibility arrangements” of textual materials are reflexively related to the recognition and retrieval of particular documents.
 
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Carlin2003b
BibType ARTICLE
Key Carlin2003b
Author(s) Andrew P. Carlin
Title Pro forma arrangements: The visual availability of textual artefacts
Editor(s) Mike Ball
Tag(s) EMCA, Text, Artefacts, Institutional
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Year 2003
Language
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Journal Visual Studies
Volume 18
Number 1
Pages 6-20
URL Link
DOI 10.1080/1472586032000100038
ISBN
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Institution
School
Type
Edition
Series Special Issue: Image Work
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Abstract

In this paper I discuss “at-a-glance” properties of textual materials in a series of work environments, including hospitals, libraries and ticket offices. I describe how members visually orient to mundane textual materials (“pro formas”) as constituents of courses of action. From the analysis of texts-in-action, I suggest that the organization of administrative texts, including blood-test requests and missing-item reports, is amenable to formal descriptions (“apostolic function”, “career”); and situated descriptions (sequencing of activities and use of membership categories). Information is rendered visually available through (a) the spatial arrangements of textual artefacts in social settings; (b) the spatial arrangements or layout of specific documents. These “visibility arrangements” of textual materials are reflexively related to the recognition and retrieval of particular documents.

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