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

  • Lucas Introna
  • Donncha Kavanagh
  • Séamas Kelly
  • Wanda Orlikowski
  • Susan Scott
Conference proceedings IS&O 2016

Part of the IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology book series (IFIPAICT, volume 489)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages I-XX
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  2. Keynotes and Invited Papers

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
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    2. What if the Screens Went Black? The Coming of Software Agents
      Karin Knorr Cetina
      Pages 3-16
    3. Thoughts on Movement, Growth and an Anthropologically-Sensitive IS/Organization Studies: An Imagined Correspondence with Tim Ingold
      Tim Ingold, Lucas Introna, Donncha Kavanagh, Séamas Kelly, Wanda Orlikowski, Susan Scott
      Pages 17-32

  3. Doing Process Research

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 33-33
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    2. From Substantialist to Process Metaphysics – Exploring Shifts in IS Research
      Dubravka Cecez-Kecmanovic
      Pages 35-57
    3. Critical Realism and Actor-Network Theory/Deleuzian Thinking: A Critical Comparison in the Area of Information Systems, Technology and Organizational Studies
      Chris McLean, Jeremy Aroles
      Pages 58-72
    4. Affordance Lost, Affordance Regained, and Affordance Surrendered
      Divya Sharma, Biswatosh Saha, Uttam K. Sarkar
      Pages 73-89

  4. Exploring Affect and Affordance

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 91-91
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    2. Ideological Materiality at Work: A Lacanian Approach
      Edouard Pignot
      Pages 93-107
    3. Inscribing Individuals into a Formalized System: The “Labour” Performed by Affective Spaces
      Alexandra Toll, Melissa Mazmanian
      Pages 108-124
    4. When Is an Affordance? Outlining Four Stances
      Arto Lanamäki, Devinder Thapa, Karen Stendal
      Pages 125-139

  5. Considering Communication and Performance

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 141-141
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    2. A Relational Approach to Materiality and Organizing: The Case of a Creative Idea
      Thomas Martine, François Cooren
      Pages 143-166
    3. Enactment or Performance? A Non-dualist Reading of Goffman
      Ella Hafermalz, Kai Riemer, Sebastian Boell
      Pages 167-181
    4. Performing Cyborgian Identity: Enacting Agential Cuts in Second Life
      Ulrike Schultze
      Pages 182-197

  6. Examining Knowledge and Practice

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 199-199
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    2. Performing Research Validity: A “Mangle of Practice” Approach
      Robert B. Johnston, Kai Reimers, Stefan Klein
      Pages 201-214
    3. Synthetic Situations in the Internet of Things
      Elena Parmiggiani, Eric Monteiro, Thomas Østerlie
      Pages 215-228
    4. A Developmental Perspective to Studying Objects in Robotic Surgery
      Laura Seppänen, Laure Kloetzer, Jarno Riikonen, Mikael Wahlström
      Pages 229-245

About these proceedings

Introduction

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.

Keywords

actor-network theory affective spaces affordances design science Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) information systems innovation Internet of Things (IoT) knowledge management systems performativity practice process semantics social media sociomateriality technology

Editors and affiliations

  • Lucas Introna
    • 1
  • Donncha Kavanagh
    • 2
  • Séamas Kelly
    • 3
  • Wanda Orlikowski
    • 4
  • Susan Scott
    • 5
  1. 1.Lancaster UniversityLancasterUnited Kingdom
  2. 2.University College DublinDublinIreland
  3. 3.University College DublinDublinIreland
  4. 4.Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridgeUSA
  5. 5.London School of EconomicsLondonUnited Kingdom

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49733-4
  • Copyright Information IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2016
  • Publisher Name Springer, Cham
  • eBook Packages Computer Science
  • Print ISBN 978-3-319-49732-7
  • Online ISBN 978-3-319-49733-4
  • Series Print ISSN 1868-4238
  • Series Online ISSN 1868-422X
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