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Alternatives Considered But Not Disclosed

The Ambiguous Role of PowerPoint in Cross-Project Learning

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  1. Dennis Schoeneborn
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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-15
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  2. Introduction

    Pages 17-27

  3. Paradigmatic Perspective: Organizations as Communications

    Pages 29-45

  4. Theoretical Analysis: The (In-)Visibility of Decision Contingency in Organizational Communication

    Pages 47-96

  5. Methodology: How to Investigate the (In-)Visibility of Decision Contingency in the Practice of Project Documentation

    Pages 97-117

  6. Empirical Analysis: Exploring the (In-)Visibility of Decision Contingency in the Practice of Project Documentation

    Pages 119-167

  7. Conclusion and Outlook

    Pages 169-180

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 181-198
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About this book

Powerfully driven by the work practices of consulting firms, the presentation software Microsoft PowerPoint is increasingly used on all levels of business and educational communication. Nevertheless, slideware ranks among the least explored media in communication studies. This study investigates the role of PowerPoint in organizational communication, particularly in terms of a functional dilemma between its application for documentation as opposed to presentation purposes. The theoretical part of the analysis combines insights from both organizational communication studies (J. R. Taylor et al.) and social systems theory (N. Luhmann et al.). The empirical analysis shows that PowerPoint documents created for cross-project learning purposes contribute to an invisibilization rather than a visibilization of decision processes and their contingency. In the light of these results, existing efforts to promote knowledge management based on the learning-from-mistakes principle need to be reconsidered with respect to their realization in communicative practice.

About the author

Dr. Dennis Schoeneborn holds a doctoral degree in media management from Bauhaus University Weimar (Germany). In his current research, he concentrates on the communicative constitution of organizations.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Alternatives Considered But Not Disclosed

  • Book Subtitle: The Ambiguous Role of PowerPoint in Cross-Project Learning

  • Authors: Dennis Schoeneborn

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8350-5528-5

  • Publisher: Deutscher Universitätsverlag Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, Wiesbaden 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-8350-7011-0Published: 12 December 2007

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-8350-5528-5Published: 21 January 2009

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 184

  • Additional Information: Erscheint im Programm VS RESEARCH.

  • Topics: Communication Studies

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