Beyond Interpretivism? New Encounters with Technology and Organization : IFIP WG 8.2 Working Conference on Information Systems and Organizations, IS&O 2016, Dublin, Ireland, December 9-10, 2016, Proceedings / / edited by Lucas Introna, Donncha Kavanagh, Séamas Kelly, Wanda Orlikowski, Susan Scott

• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2016.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XX, 247 p. 13 illus.)
• Disciplina: 004.6
• Soggetto topico: Application software; Electronic data processing - Management; Computers and civilization; Social sciences - Data processing; Computer and Information Systems Applications; IT Operations; Computers and Society; Computer Application in Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Persona (resp. second.): IntronaLucas D; KavanaghDonncha; KellySéamas; OrlikowskiWanda J (Wanda Janina); ScottSusan
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Organization -- Introduction -- Contents -- Keynotes and Invited Papers -- What if the Screens Went Black? The Coming of Software Agents -- 1 Electronic-Automatic-Algorithmic: Some Data and Definitions -- 2 Transformations -- 3 Our Postsocial Future -- References -- Thoughts on Movement, Growth and an Anthropologically-Sensitive IS/Organization Studies: An Imagined ... -- 1 Q: Liveliness, Movement and Engagement Are Central Themes in Your Ecological Approach to Anthropol ... -- 2 Q: How Did This Early Exposure to the Practices of Science of Your Father Shape Your Engagement wi ... -- 3 Q: What, then, Made You an Anthropologist? -- 4 Q: How Would You like to See Your Kind of Anthropology Develop? -- 5 Q: What Might This Mean for the Practice of Anthropology? or, More Specifically, What Might Be Ent ... -- 6 Q: So This "Squishiness" Needs to Be Celebrated and Embraced by Anthropologists? -- 7 Q: What Became of Goethe's Vision - This Notion of a Sensual and Involved Science? -- 8 Q: So Anthropology Might Be Understood as a Form of Art? -- 9 Q: How Does This View Square with Traditional Conceptions of the Anthropological Project? -- 10 Q: Is This Notion of Anthropology as Art Likely to Be Dismissed as "Unscientific" Within the Cont ... -- 11 Q: We Typically Conceive of the Social and Natural Worlds as Separate, but You Have Been Very Kee ... -- 12 Q: But What Does This Imply for the Way We Think About Being Human in the World? -- 13 Q: So Developing a New Conceptual Vocabulary Would Seem to Be Very Important. the Notion of Atten ... -- 14 Q: Is This Why You Are so Adamant in Your Dismissal of Hylomorphism? -- 15 Q: Ontogenesis as a Lively Process of Making and Growing, Which Involves Flows of Material ... How ... -- 16 Q: This Emphasis on Entanglement and Growth Suggests a Very Active Role for Organism-Persons in P ... ; 17 Q: So the Emphasis Is on the Porousness of Boundaries Between the Human and Non-human, Organism a ... -- 18 Q: If We Problematize the Common Distinction Between the "Natural" and the "Artificial", What Are ... -- 19 Q: Let Us Shift Now to a Terrain that Might Be More Familiar to an IS/OS Readership. in Your Work ... -- 20 Q: You Mentioned Earlier the Importance of the Idea of Lines in Your Work. What Are These Lines? ... -- 21 Q: But Are Lines then These Lone Travellers that just Carry on ...? -- 22 Q: That Is Interesting. What Do You Want to Convey with This Idea of a Knot or Knotting? -- 23 Q: So Knotting Is a Way of Joining, of Being with, but that Is Very Different from Connecting ...? -- 24 Q: In One of Your Papers You Make the Distinction Between Joining "up" and Joining "with", Is Thi ... -- 25 Q: Is This Notion of Sympathy Where Your Idea of Correspondence Comes in? -- 26 Q: We Have Explored a Number of Ideas. Maybe We Can Conclude. Given Our Conversation, What Would ... -- Sources -- This interview has grown through the interpenetration of a range of different sources. Most notably, ... -- Doing Process Research -- From Substantialist to Process Metaphysics - Exploring Shifts in IS Research -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Historical Roots of Substantialist and Process Metaphysics -- 3 Key Assumptions: A Comparative View of Substantialist and Process Metaphysics -- 4 Reflections on Substantialist Metaphysics Underlying IS Research and the Shifts Towards Process Metaphysics -- 4.1 IS Research Underlined by Substantialist Metaphysics -- 4.2 A Shift Towards an Interpretive Approach and Social Constructivism -- 4.3 A Shift Towards Relational Ontology and a Sociomaterial Approach -- 5 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Critical Realism and Actor-Network Theory/Deleuzian Thinking: A Critical Comparison in the Area of I ... -- Abstract. ; 1 Introduction -- 2 Critical Realism -- 3 Actor-Network Theory and Deleuzian Lines of Inquiry -- 4 Reality, Construction and Morphogenesis -- 4.1 Morphogenesis and Ontological Commitments -- 4.2 A Brief Example of Morphogenesis in Education Research -- 5 Some Concluding Thoughts -- References -- Affordance Lost, Affordance Regained, and Affordance Surrendered -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Theoretical Background -- 2.1 Co-presence and the Becoming of Affordances -- 2.2 Following the Absently Present Actors -- 3 Research Context -- 4 Methodology -- 4.1 Method -- 4.2 Data -- 4.3 Analysis -- 5 Findings -- 5.1 Reachability: The Becoming of an Affordance -- 5.2 Affordance Lost: Fragility of Assemblage -- 5.3 Affordance Regained: Collective Reconstitution of Assemblage -- 5.4 Surrendered Affordance: Assemblage Becoming Non-existent -- 6 Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- Exploring Affect and Affordance -- Ideological Materiality at Work: A Lacanian Approach -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Language and Materiality -- 3 A Critical Evaluation of Sociomateriality -- 4 Ideology and Materiality -- 5 Rematerializing Ideology -- 5.1 The Essex Lacanian School -- 5.2 Materiality of the Signifier -- 5.3 Reframing Ideology -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Inscribing Individuals into a Formalized System: The "Labour" Performed by Affective Spaces -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Literature -- 3 Data and Methods -- 4 Findings -- 4.1 Empirical Description of Passage Points -- 4.2 Technologies of Formalization -- 4.3 Preparing for Breakdowns -- 5 Discussion -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- When Is an Affordance? Outlining Four Stances -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 James J. Gibson: Affordances for Good or Ill -- 3 Four Stances for Affordances -- 3.1 Canonical Affordances -- 3.2 Designed Affordances -- 3.3 Potential Affordances. ; 3.4 Affordances as Completed Actions -- 4 Concluding Discussion -- References -- Considering Communication and Performance -- A Relational Approach to Materiality and Organizing: The Case of a Creative Idea -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Sociomateriality: Weak and Strong Versions -- 3 Sociomateriality: An Aspectual Version -- 4 Communication as Constitutive of Organization -- 5 Method -- 6 The Pitch Requirements -- 6.1 Requirements for Museomix as a Whole -- 6.2 Requirements Specific to the Pitches -- 7 The Pitch of the "Secret Social Life of Artworks" -- 8 Discussion -- References -- Enactment or Performance? A Non-dualist Reading of Goffman -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Performativity in Sociomateriality Research in IS -- 3 Methodology: A Hermeneutic Reading -- 4 Mol's Objections to Goffman's "Performance" -- 5 A Non-dualist Re-reading of Mol's Critique of "Self" in Goffman -- 5.1 Mol's Critique of the Performed Self -- 5.2 Personas and Masks in Goffman -- 6 A Non-dualist Re-reading of Goffman's Notions of Performance and Reality -- 6.1 The "Self" in Performance -- 6.2 Performance and "Reality" -- 7 Re-interpreting Goffman for Sociomateriality Research in IS -- 7.1 Goffman and Inseparability -- 7.2 What Goffman's Notion of Performance Contributes: Locating Technology -- 8 Conclusion -- References -- Performing Cyborgian Identity: Enacting Agential Cuts in Second Life -- Abstract -- 1 Research Motivation -- 2 Cyborgian Identity Performance -- 2.1 Identity as Multiple vs. Fixed -- 2.2 Representational vs. Performative Identities -- 3 Theoretical Framework -- 3.1 Virtual vs. Actual Reality -- 3.2 The Engine of Inquiry -- 3.3 Agential Cuts -- 4 Method -- 5 Empirical Analysis -- 5.1 Dialectic Space: Virtual vs Actual -- 5.2 Perpetual Motion: Performing Cyborgian Identity -- 6 Discussion and Conclusion -- References. ; Examining Knowledge and Practice -- Performing Research Validity: A "Mangle of Practice" Approach -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The "Representational Idiom" of Science and Its Problems -- 3 An Alternative Account of Scientific Practice -- 3.1 Pickering's "Performative Idiom" for Scientific Practice -- 3.2 Validity Under the Performative Idiom -- 3.3 Moving Beyond Natural Science: Generalizing Material Agency -- 4 Example: Researching Information Infrastructuring -- 4.1 Information Infrastructuring -- 4.2 Applying the Mangle to Research on Infrastructuring -- 4.3 Performative Validity Claims for Research on Information Infrastructuring -- 5 Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- Synthetic Situations in the Internet of Things -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Theory -- 2.1 (Re-)Conceptualizing Situated Action -- 2.2 Situating Action in the Internet of Things -- 3 Research Setting and Methods -- 4 Results -- 4.1 Monitoring the Drilling Activity -- 4.2 Monitoring for New Oil -- 4.3 Monitoring the Marine Ecosystem -- 5 Discussion -- 6 Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- A Developmental Perspective to Studying Objects in Robotic Surgery -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction: The Developmental Perspective -- 2 The Robot in Surgery -- 3 The Developmental Interventionist Method and the Concept of Object -- 4 Self-confrontation Process -- 5 An Extra Hole in the Urinary Bladder -- 6 Discussion and Conclusion: How Do Objects Evolve in the Self-confrontation Process? -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Author Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP WG 8.2 Working Conference on Information Systems and Organizations, IS&O 2016, held in Dublin, Ireland, in December 2016. The 12 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: doing process research; exploring affect and affordance; considering communication and performance; and examining knowledge and practice.
• Titolo autorizzato: Beyond Interpretivism? New Encounters with Technology and Organization
• ISBN: 3-319-49733-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910255005803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, . 1868-422X ; ; 489