Beyond Interpretivism? New Encounters with Technology and Organization

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IFIP WG 8.2 Working Conference on Information Systems and Organizations, IS&O 2016, Dublin, Ireland, December 9-10, 2016, Proceedings

Lucas Introna Donncha Kavanagh Séamas Kelly Wanda Orlikowski Susan Scott(Editor)

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Published on 18. November 2016

XX, 247 pages

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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
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