The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies (Hardcover)

Our most basic relationship with the world is one of technological mediation. Nowadays our available tools are digital, and increasingly what counts in economic, social, and cultural life is what can be digitally stored, distributed, replayed, augmented, and switched. Yet the digital remains very much materially configured, and though it now permeates nearly all human life it has not eclipsed all older technologies. This Handbook is grounded in an understanding that our technologically mediated condition is a condition of organization. It maps and theorizes the largely unchartered territory of media, technology, and organization studies. Written by scholars of organization and theorists of media and technology, the chapters focus on specific, and specifically mediating, objects that shape the practices, processes, and effects of organization. It is in this spirit that each chapter focuses on a specific technological object, such as the Battery, Clock, High Heels, Container, or Smartphone, asking the question, how does this object or process organize? In staying with the object the chapters remain committed to the everyday, empirical world, rather than being confined to established disciplinary concerns and theoretical developments. As the first sustained and systematic interrogation of the relation between technologies, media, and organization, this Handbook consolidates, deepens, and further develops the empirics and concepts required to make sense of the material forces of organization.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Oxford Handbooks
Release date:	December 2019
Editors:	Timon Beyes (Professor for Sociology of Organization and Culture) • Robin Holt (Professor, Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy) • Claus Pias (Professor of Media Theory and the History of Media)
Dimensions:	250 x 175 x 38mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	558
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-880991-3
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Occupational & industrial psychology Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > General Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management & management techniques > Organizational theory & behaviour Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Office & workplace > General
LSN:	0-19-880991-3
Barcode:	9780198809913

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