Materiality and organizing
Subtitle: social interaction in a technological world
By: edited by Paul M. Leonardi, Bonnie A. Nardi, Jannis Kallinikos
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780199664061; 9781283960809; 9780191640674; 9780191745423; 9780199664054
Subjects: Social aspects; Digital communications; Technological innovations; Computers; Organizational behavior
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on the Contributors; I. Setting the Stage; 1. The Challenge of Materiality: Origins, Scope, and Prospects; II. Theorizing Materiality; 2. Materiality, Sociomateriality, and Socio-Technical Systems: What Do These Terms Mean? How Are They Different? Do We Need Them?; 3. On Sociomateriality; 4. Form, Function, and Matter: Crossing the Border of Materiality; III. Materiality as Performativity; 5. Ranking Devices: The Socio-Materiality of Ratings; title: 6. Great Expectations: The Materiality of Commensurability in Social Media7. Digital Materiality and the Emergence of an Evolutionary Science of the Artificial; IV. Materiality as Assemblage; 8. Inverse Instrumentality: How Technologies Objectify Patients and Players; 9. Space Matters, But How? Physical Space, Virtual Space, and Place; 10. Socio-material Practices of Design Coordination: Objects as Plastic and Partisan; V. Materiality as Affordance; 11. Theorizing Information Technology as a Material Artifact in Information Systems Research; title: 12. The Materiality of Technology: An Affordance Perspective13. Pencils, Legos, and Guns: A Study of Artifacts Used in Architecture; VI. Materiality as Consequence; 14. Materiality: What are the Consequences?; 15. Why Matter Always Matters in (Organizational) Communication; 16. The Materiality of Rumor; VII. Epilogue; 17. Matter Matters: Materiality in Philosophy, Physics, and Technology; Author Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; Subject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z