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.
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