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Materiality and Organizing
Social Interaction in a Technological World
Edited by Paul M. Leonardi, Bonnie A. Nardi, and Jannis Kallinikos
380 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-966405-4
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Hardback
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22 November 2012
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- Offers new theoretical perspectives to pave the way for future research
- Comprehensive examination of phenomenon of materiality from multiple disciplinary perspectives
- Focus on materiality and sociomateriality in study of technology
- Contributions from prominent international scholars
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.Readership: Academics and researchers in Communication Studies, Science and Technology Studies, and Organization Studies.
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Edited by Paul M. Leonardi, Pentair-Nugent Associate Professor in the Departments of Communication Studies and Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern University, Bonnie A. Nardi, Professor, Department of Informatics, the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, the University of California, Irvine, and Jannis Kallinikos, Professor, London School of Economics Paul M. Leonardi is the Pentair-Nugent Associate Professor in the Departments of Communication Studies and Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern University where he teaches courses on the management of innovation and organizational change in the
School of Communication, the McCormick School of Engineering, and the Kellogg School of Management. His research focuses on how companies can design organizational structures and employ advanced information technologies to more effectively create and share knowledge. He is the author of Car Crashes Without Cars: Lessons about Simulation Technology and Organizational Change from Automotive Design (MIT Press, 2012).
Bonnie Nardi is a Professor in the Department of Informatics at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, the University of California, Irvine. An anthropologist, she has studied the uses of digital technologies in offices, schools, homes, libraries, hospitals, scientific laboratories, and virtual worlds. Her theoretical orientation is activity theory. She is the author of many scientific articles and books. Her latest books are My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft (University of Michigan Press, 2010) and Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method (co-author, Princeton University Press, 2012).
Jannis Kallinikos is Professor and PhD programme Director in the Information Systems and Innovation Group, Department of Management at the London School of Economics. His research covers a wide range of topics on the interpenetration of technology with the administrative and institutional arrangements of contemporary societies. Recent books include The Consequences of Information: Institutional Implications of Technological Change (Edward Elgar, 2006), and Governing Through Technology: Information Artefacts and Social Practice (Palgrave, 2011).
Contributors:
Chad Anderson, Assistant Professor of Information Systems, the University of Nevada, Reno.
Bijan Azad, Associate Professor, the Olayan School of Business, American University of Beirut.
Albert Borgmann, Regents Professor of Philosophy, the University of Montana, Missoula.
Jenna Burrell, Assistant Professor, the School of Information, University of California-Berkeley.
François Cooren, Professor, the Department of Communication, the Université de Montréal.
Christiane Demers, Professor, the Department of Management, HEC Montréal.
Hamid Ekbia, Associate Professor of Information Science and
Cognitive Science, and the Director of Center for Research on Mediated Interaction, the School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington.
Gail T. Fairhurst, Professor of Organizational Communication, the University of Cincinnati, USA.
Samer Faraj, the Canada Research Chair in Technology, Management, and Healthcare, the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University.
Philip Faulkner, Fellow and Senior College Teaching Officer in Economics, Clare College, Cambridge, and Fellow, the Cambridge Judge Business School.
Anne-Laure Fayard, Assistant Professor of Management, the Department of Technology Management, the Polytechnic Institute, New York University.
Carole Groleau, Associate Professor, the
Department of Communication, Université de Montréal.
Chris Harty, Lecturer in Socio-Technical Systems and Director of the Health and Care Infrastructure Research and Innovation Centre, the School of Construction Management and Engineering, University of Reading, UK.
Romain Huët, Assistant Professor (Maître de conférence), the Department of Communication, the European University of Brittany (Rennes, France).
Jannis Kallinikos, Professor and PhD programme Director in the Information Systems and Innovation Group, Department of Management, London School of Economics.
Paul M. Leonardi, Allen K. and Johnnie Cordell Breed Junior Professor of Design, Northwestern University.
Bonnie Nardi, Professor in the Department of Informatics, the
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, the University of California, Irvine.
Wanda J. Orlikowski, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Information Technologies and Organization Studies, the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Brian T. Pentland, Professor, the Department of Accounting and Information Systems, Michigan State University.
Benoit Raymond, Assistant Professor, the Department of Organizational Information Systems, Université Laval, Canada.
Daniel Robey, Emeritus Professor of Information Systems, Georgia State University.
Jochen Runde, Director of the MBA and Reader in Economics, Cambridge Judge Business School, and Professorial Fellow and Director of Studies in Management
Studies, Girton College, Cambridge.
Susan V. Scott, Senior Lecturer in the Information Systems and Innovation Group, Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science.
Harminder Singh, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Business and Law, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand.
Jennifer Whyte, Professor in Innovation and Design, the School of Construction Management and Engineering, University of Reading.
Youngjin Yoo, Professor in Management Information Systems and Irwin L. Gross Research Fellow, Fox School of Business and Management, Temple University.
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"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." - Shoshana Zuboff, Charles Edward Wilson Professor, Harvard Business School "This volume is a much-needed exploration of the material aspects of the technologies that have reshaped our world. For two decades, a narrative framing technologies as social constructions has led to important advances in our understanding of their nature and impacts. Materiality and Organizing provides an important counterbalance to this approach in its exploration of the dimensions of materiality that constrain but also enable technologies to connect with and affect people, organizations, and society. This volume is required reading for
scholars interested in technology, its development, and its impacts. Its insights into information technology are particularly significant." - Professor Marshall Scott Poole, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "For too long the materiality of social life has been ignored by sociologists and organization studies scholars. The role of materiality in social life is turning out to be one of the most interesting and difficult issues in the field. This multidisciplinary collection does not offer a single solution but offers the latest thoughts of scholars who try and take materiality seriously in their own research. The resulting volume is a deep and fascinating collection of essays." - Professor Trevor Pinch, Cornell University
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I. Setting the Stage
1: Jannis Kallinikos, Paul M. Leonardi, and Bonnie A. Nardi: The Challenge of Materiality: Origins, Scope, and Prospects
II. Theorizing Materiality
2: Paul M. Leonardi: Materiality, Sociomateriality, and Socio-Technical Systems: What Do These Terms Mean? How Are They Different? Do We Need Them?
3: Philip Faulkner and Jochen Runde: On Sociomateriality
4: Jannis Kallinikos: Form, Function, and Matter: Crossing the Border of Materiality
III. Materiality as Performativity
5: Neil Pollock: Ranking Devices: The Socio-Materiality of Ratings
6: Susan V. Scott and Wanda J. Orlikowski: Great Expectations: The Materiality of Commensurability in Social Media
7: Youngjin Yoo: Digital Materiality and the Emergence of an Evolutionary Science of the Artificial
IV. Materiality as Assemblage
8: Hamid Ekbia and Bonnie A. Nardi: Inverse Instrumentality: How Technologies Objectify Patients and Players
9: Anne-Laure Fayard: Space Matters, but How? Physical Space, Virtual Space, and Place
10: Jennifer Whyte and Chris Harty: Socio-material Practices of Design Co-ordination Across a Large Construction Project
V. Materiality as Affordance
11: Daniel Robey, Benoit Raymond, and Chad Anderson: Theorizing Information Technology as a Material Artifact in Information Systems Research
12: Samer Faraj and Bijan Azad: The Materiality of Technology: An Affordance Perspective
13: Carole Groleau and Christiane Demers: Pencils, Legos, and Guns: A Study of Artifacts Used in Architecture
VI. Materiality as Consequence
14: Brian T. Pentland and Harminder Singh: Materiality: What are the Consequences?
15: François Cooren, Gail Fairhurst, and Romain Huët: Why Matter Always Matters in (Organizational) Communication
16: Jenna Burrell: The Materiality of Rumor
VII. Epilogue
17: Albert Borgmann: Matter Matters: Materiality in Philosophy, Physics, and Technology
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