At the Heart of Information Ecologies: Invisibility and Technical Communication
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/337271.337290
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Ranney, Frances J.
Journal of Computer Documentation
2000

Abstract:

The ecological metaphor for technological systems provides a useful supplement to others dealing with the question of human control over technologies. However, it fails to develop adequately its own reliance on communication as the means whereby human values may be embedded in technologies, or to recognize the role of professional communicators in that process.