Materiality and organizing : social interaction in a technological world / edited by Paul M. Leonardi, Bonnie A. Nardi, and Jannis Kallinikos.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The challenge of materiality: origins, scope, and prospects / Jannis Kallinikos, Paul M. Leonardi, and Bonnie A. Nardi -- Materiality, sociomateriality, and socio-technical systems: what do these terms mean? How are they different? Do we need them? / Paul M. Leonardi -- On sociomateriality / Philip Faulkner and Jochen Runde -- Form, function, and matter: crossing the border of materiality / Jannis Kallinikos -- Ranking devices: the socio-materiality of ratings / Neil Pollock -- Great expectations: the materiality of commensurability in social media / Susan V. Scott and Wanda J. Orlikowski -- Digital materiality and the emergence of an evolutionary science of the artificial / Youngjin Yoo -- Inverse instrumentality: how technologies objectify patients and players / Hamid Ekbia and Bonnie A. Nardi -- Space matters, but how? Physical space, virtual space, and place / Anne-Laure Fayard -- Socio-material practices of design coordination: objects as plastic and partisan / Jennifer Whyte and Chris Harty -- Theorizing information technology as a material artifact in information systems research / Daniel Roby, Benoit Raymond, and Chad Anderson -- The materiality of technology: an affordance perspective / Samer Jaraj and Bijan Azad -- Pencils, Legos, and guns: a study of artifacts used in architecture / Carole Groleau and Christiane Demers -- Materiality: what are the consequences? / Brian T. Pentland and Harminder Singh -- Why matter always matters in (organizational) communication / Francois Cooren, Gail T. Fairhurst, and Romain Huet -- The materiality of rumor / Jenna Burrell -- Matter matters: materiality in philosophy, physics, and technology / Albert Borgmann.

"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."--Publisher's website.