A brief noon time post for those of you blogging with your lunch:

Gee writes that:

" It is one of the tenants of the NLS that any piece of language, any tool, technology, or social practice can take on quite different meanings (and values) in different contexts, and that no piece of language, no tool, technology, or social practice has a meaning (or value) outside of all contexts"(11?).

Would the contexts he defines here fall into the category of the social? In my mind they do, which led me back to Latour, somehow. Whereas we might append "social" to Gee's "contexts", does that only do what Latour emphasizes in his Introduction that we should not be doing?

Confusion abounds.