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Materiality and Organizing: Social Interaction in a Technological World de Paul M. Leonardi

Materiality and Organizing: Social Interaction in a Technological World

Editat de Paul M. Leonardi, Bonnie A. Nardi, Jannis Kallinikos
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 noi 2012

Observăm în mediul academic o nevoie acută de a depăși ideologia determinismului tehnologic, iar Materiality and Organizing răspunde acestei necesități prin aplicabilitatea practică a conceptului de materialitate în structurile organizaționale moderne. Apreciem modul în care editorii Paul M. Leonardi, Bonnie A. Nardi și Jannis Kallinikos reușesc să ancoreze teoriile abstracte în realități concrete, precum utilizarea social media sau a instrumentelor de simulare digitală. Volumul nu se limitează la a descrie tehnologia, ci analizează cum „materialitatea” — acea configurație de elemente fizice și digitale care persistă în timp — modelează interacțiunile umane și procesele de organizare.

Descoperim aici o abordare multidisciplinară care integrează perspective din management, informatică și sociologie, oferind un cadru analitic robust pentru înțelegerea schimbărilor socio-tehnice actuale. Stilul este riguros și academic, însă structura capitolelor facilitează navigarea prin teme complexe, de la rolul algoritmilor de ranking până la dinamica zvonurilor în rețelele digitale. Comparabil cu How Matter Matters de Paul R. Carlile în rigurozitate, acest volum este actualizat pentru contextul unei lumi în care granița dintre artefact și agent uman devine tot mai fluidă.

Suntem de părere că această lucrare consolidează poziția lui Paul M. Leonardi ca o voce autoritară în domeniu. Dacă în lucrarea sa anterioară, Expertise, Communication, and Organizing, acesta explora natura ezoterică a expertizei, în volumul de față extinde cercetarea către fundamentul material al comunicării. Este o lectură esențială pentru cei care doresc să înțeleagă nu doar ce face tehnologia, ci cum devine ea parte integrantă din structura socială.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199664061
ISBN-10: 0199664064
Pagini: 380
Dimensiuni: 178 x 234 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor și studenților la masterat sau doctorat în management, sociologie și comunicare. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a modului în care instrumentele digitale și obiectele fizice nu sunt doar fundaluri ale activității umane, ci participanți activi în procesul de organizare. Este un instrument teoretic esențial pentru a naviga complexitatea relației om-tehnologie în organizațiile contemporane.

Despre autor

Paul M. Leonardi este profesor titular (Duca Family Professor) în Managementul Tehnologiei la University of California, Santa Barbara. Recunoscut pentru abordările sale inovatoare privind modul în care organizațiile adoptă tehnologii noi, Leonardi a publicat anterior lucrări de referință precum „Car Crashes without Cars” la MIT Press. Cercetările sale se concentrează pe intersecția dintre comunicare, tehnologie și organizare, fiind un expert solicitat în analiza rețelelor sociale și a fluxurilor de informații în mediile de lucru digitale.

Descriere

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.

Recenzii

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.
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.
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.

Notă biografică

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).