Materiality and Organizing: Social Interaction in a Technological World

摘要: Ask a person on the street whether new technologies bring about important social change and you are likely to hear resounding "yes." But answer is less definitive amongst academics who study technology practice. Scholarly writing has been heavily influenced by ideology of technological determinism - belief that some types or technologically driven changes inevitable cannot be stopped. Rather than argue for against notions determinism, authors in this book ask how materiality (the arrangement physical, digital, rhetorical materials into particular forms endure across differences place time) technologies, ranging from computer-simulation tools media, ranking devices rumours, actually implicated process formal informal organizing. The builds theoretical framework consider socio-technical confronting people's everyday experiences outside work. Leading scholars field contribute original chapters examining complex interactions between social, artefact humans. discussion spans multiple disciplines, including management, information systems, informatics, communication, sociology, history technology, opens up area research regarding relationship