From Object to Mediator: The Agency of Documents

This paper takes as a starting point one particular development in social theory – the concept of mediation – and applies it to the document. Central to this discussion is a conceptualisation of documents as objects, albeit one which fails if we assume the document to be nothing more than a receptac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sally Irvine-Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Akron Press 2015-12-01
Series:Proceedings from the Document Academy
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Online Access:https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/docam/vol2/iss1/4