Materiality and organizing : social interaction in a technological world /
"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 id...
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Other Authors / Creators: | Leonardi, Paul M., 1979- Nardi, Bonnie A. Kallinikos, Jannis. |
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
Edition: | First edition. |
Imprint: | Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. |
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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
- 6. Great Expectations: The Materiality of Commensurability in Social Media
- 7. 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
- 12. The Materiality of Technology: An Affordance Perspective
- 13. 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
- Subject Index