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The Mundane, Power, and Symmetry: A Reading of the Field with Dorothy Winsor and the Tradition of Ethnographic Research
Technical Communication Quarterly (2011)
  • Sarah Read, Portland State University
Abstract
Dorothy Winsor's induction as an ATTW Fellow in 2007 and the disciplinary moment of reflection invited by this issue provide the exigence for the story of how Winsor's scholarship, and ethnographic scholarship more broadly, has shaped the field. This story, told via the interpretive lens of three topoi (the mundane, power, and symmetry) that emerged from an interview with Winsor in 2009, suggests how the field's theory and methodology have matured over the past three decades and anticipates what it will become in the future.
Publication Date
2011
DOI
10.1080/10572252.2011.596721
Publisher Statement
Copyright (2011) Taylor & Francis.

*At the time of publication, Sarah Read was affiliated with DePaul University.
Citation Information
Read, S. (2011). The mundane, power, and symmetry: A reading of the field with Dorothy Winsor and the tradition of ethnographic research. Technical Communication Quarterly, 20(4), 353-383.