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This article explores the dyslogistics (spoken badly/pertaining to dysfunctioning communication) of organizational interaction. Dyslogistics are to be opposed to eulogistics ( dys + (eu)logistic). The term is attributed to Jeremy Bentham ( Webster's Dictionary , 1913 edn). Two ethnographic cases within a single business organization are presented to explore what Nardi and O'Day call an information ecology . But while their information ecologies seem self-evidently to lead to organizational learning, ours will point to complex and often equivocal interactions, sometimes even to oppressiveness .

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Dyslogistic Information Ecologies

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