Materiality and Organizing
Social Interaction in a Technological World
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 22 November 2012
- ISBN 9780199664061
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages380 pages
- Size 234x178x20 mm
- Weight 588 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This edited collection brings together leading academics in the field to explore the ways in which digital and non-digital artifacts shape how groups and collectives organize. It focuses on the idea of materiality and the interactions between the social and the technical in organizations, at work, and in technologies
MoreLong description:
Ask a person on the street whether new technologies bring about important social change and you are likely to hear a resounding "yes." But the answer is less definitive amongst academics who study technology and social practice. Scholarly writing has been heavily influenced by the ideology of technological determinism - the belief that some types or technologically driven social changes are inevitable and cannot be stopped. Rather than argue for or against notions of determinism, the authors in this book ask how the materiality (the arrangement of physical, digital, or rhetorical materials into particular forms that endure across differences in place and time) of technologies, ranging from computer-simulation tools and social media, to ranking devices and rumours, is actually implicated in the process of formal and informal organizing.
The book builds a new theoretical framework to consider the important socio-technical changes confronting people's everyday experiences in and outside of work. Leading scholars in the field contribute original chapters examining the complex interactions between technology and the social, between artefact and humans. The discussion spans multiple disciplines, including management, information systems, informatics, communication, sociology, and the history of technology, and opens up a new area of research regarding the relationship between materiality and organizing.
Materiality and Organizing marks a long overdue turning point in the scholarly study of the human-technology relationship that now engulfs our lives. For too long, researchers have tended to treat technology as a dream conjured by agents and imbued with their projects. This brilliant sequence of essays restores and deepens the entire field of perception. It finally returns us to the facticity of technology as it persistently redefines the horizon of the possible. These tightly argued masterpieces reestablish technology as embodied and significant. Most importantly, they return us to materiality just in time. With each passing day, technology becomes both more abstracted from its physical manifestations and more ubiquitous, producing a dematerialized materiality. Only a relentless focus on this paradox will yield the intellectual tools that are required to participate in our own destinies.
Table of Contents:
I. Setting the Stage
The Challenge of Materiality: Origins, Scope, and Prospects
II. Theorizing Materiality
Materiality, Sociomateriality, and Socio-Technical Systems: What Do These Terms Mean? How Are They Different? Do We Need Them?
On Sociomateriality
Form, Function, and Matter: Crossing the Border of Materiality
III. Materiality as Performativity
Ranking Devices: The Socio-Materiality of Ratings
Great Expectations: The Materiality of Commensurability in Social Media
Digital Materiality and the Emergence of an Evolutionary Science of the Artificial
IV. Materiality as Assemblage
Inverse Instrumentality: How Technologies Objectify Patients and Players
Space Matters, but How? Physical Space, Virtual Space, and Place
Socio-material Practices of Design Co-ordination Across a Large Construction Project
V. Materiality as Affordance
Theorizing Information Technology as a Material Artifact in Information Systems Research
The Materiality of Technology: An Affordance Perspective
Pencils, Legos, and Guns: A Study of Artifacts Used in Architecture
VI. Materiality as Consequence
Materiality: What are the Consequences?
Why Matter Always Matters in (Organizational) Communication
The Materiality of Rumor
VII. Epilogue
Matter Matters: Materiality in Philosophy, Physics, and Technology
