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

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. 0This 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. 0It 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. 0As 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 Contents 6 List of Figures 10 List of Contributors 16 Introduction 20 1. Account Books • François-Régis Puyou and Paolo Quattrone 23 2. Acoustic Tile • Reinhold Martin 34 3. Battery • Jan Müggenburg 45 4. Bicycle • Christoph Michels and Chris Steyaert 53 5. Bitcoin • Lucas Introna and Lara Pecis 62 6. Calendar • Florian Hoof 73 7. Card • Markus Krajewski 87 8. Chair • Maria-Laura Toraldo and Jeanne Mengis 103 9. Clock • Melissa Gregg and Tamara Kneese 114 10. Cloud • John Durham Peters 125 11. Coffee Machine • Götz Bachmann and Paula Bialski 135 12. Colour Chart • Timon Beyes 144 13. Container • Alexander Klose 155 14. Conversational Interface • Mercedes Bunz 168 15. Copper • Ned Rossiter 179 16. Copy Machine • Monika Dommann 191 17. Dating App • Nanna Bonde Thylstrup and Kristin Veel 210 18. Desk • Gibson Burrell and Karen Dale 221 19. Elevator • Andreas Bernard 233 20. Executive Dashboard • Armin Beverungen 244 21. Filter System • Wendy Hui Kyong Chun 257 22. High Heels • Mike Zundel 265 23. Interface • Nishant Shah 276 24. Mind Tracker • Aleksandra Przegalinska 284 25. Office Plant • Stefan Rieger 294 26. Overhead Projector • Claus Pias 305 27. Paper Shredder • Alice Comi 320 28. Pen • Daniel Hjorth 330 29. Planning Table • Lisa Conrad 340 30. Prezi • Annika Skoglund 352 31. Price Book • Damian O’Doherty 364 32. Push Button • L. Roman Duffner 375 33. Pussyhat • Sine Nørholm Just 387 34. Railway Tracks • Christian De Cock 399 35. Real Time Bidding System • Theodore Vurdubakis 410 36. Recommender System • Cristina Alaimo and Jannis Kallinikos 420 37. Search Engine • Renée Ridgway 431 38. Smartphone • Jennifer Whyte 449 39. Suit • Barbara Vinken 462 40. Telegraph • Mikkel Flyverbom and Anders Koed Madsen 471 41. Typeface • Robin Holt 483 42. Whiteboard, Flipchart • Jörg Metelmann 496 43. Wiki • Olga Rodak, Tomasz Raburski, and Dariusz Jemielniak 506 44. By Means of Which: Media, Technology, Organization • Timon Beyes, Robin Holt, and Claus Pias 517 Index 534