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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.
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