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Liberal arts in business and business in liberal arts: the view from Bocconi
No full textThe chapter analyses the pedagogy, structure and characteristics of CLEACC program at Bocconi university and discusses the effectiveness of arts management program
Organisation im soziotechnischen Gemenge - Mediale Umschichtungen durch die Einführung von SAP
No full textDer Alltag in Organisationen besteht vor allem aus den Medien und Technologien, mit denen die Koordination zwischen einzelnen Arbeitsabläufen hergestellt wird. Diese ethnografische Studie begleitet den Prozess der Einführung eines SAP-Systems in einem mittelständischen Unternehmen und zeigt, wie das bestehende Geflecht aus Praktiken und Technologien eine Neuanordnung erfährt. Dabei tritt das komplexe soziotechnische Gemenge zutage, auf dem Koordination und Organisation beruhen. Es geht um Hardware, ebenso wie Software, um mechanische und elektronische Medien, um Papiere, Drucker, Akten, Interfaces und Tastaturen, aber auch um die jahrzehntelang eingespielten Routinen und das Erfahrungswissen der Angestellten
Performing the Digital
Full text linkHow is performativity shaped by digital media – and how do performance practices themselves reflect and alter techno-social configurations? Performing the Digital inquires into the technological terms and conditions of performance and performance studies, and maps and theorizes the registers of performance at work in digital cultures. The contributions range from the performativity of algorithms and digital devices to the modulation of affect, atmospheres and the body; from performing cities, protest, organization and the economy to the scholarly performances of research
Journalismus – (k)ein Geschäftsmodell: Wie Gemeinnützigkeit den Journalismus auf dem Weg in eine digitale Zukunft begleiten kann
Full text linkPrezi as a mediating technology of organization: In book: The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies
No full textPrezi, a zooming presentation tool, has been spoken and programmed into being according to well-known ideas of transmission, collaboration, and augmentation. This chapter traces the ‘productiveness’ in the shifts between these three themes, moving from transmission through collaboration towards the mobilization of technologies for the more-than-human, driven by how the Prezi technology has been envisioned as a sense-to-sense prosthesis. To end, it is argued that there is a correlating critical position of productiveness present in Prezi’s ‘alternative entrepreneurship’, i.e., the more-than-economic organization that the company seeks.</p
Pussyhat as Mediating Technology of Organization
No full textThis chapter retraces the organizational capacity of the pussyhat. How did this object interrelate with other media and technologies in the making of the Women’s March? And how does it continue to do so as the Women’s March transforms itself from a singular event to a social movement? In answering these questions, emphasis is placed on the material quality of the pussyhat as a knitted object. As a social technology, knitting marks identity, establishes collective bonds, and offers opportunities for social change. The chapter explores the interweaving of these three socio-technical functions in charging the pussyhat with affective organizational force
Bitcoin as a mediating technology of organization
No full textThis chapter explores how Bitcoin promotes itself as an open, democratic, decentralized, and collaborative community that can bypass untrustworthy financial institutions. Whilst notions of trust in traditional forms of institutions, such as banks, have been affected by the 2008–9 financial crisis, the push towards alternative monetary systems by cryptocurrency communities seems to offer the perfect promise of decentralization and transparency. Yet, following Luhmann’s articulation of system trust, the complex functioning of Bitcoin calls for rethinking how trust in the system is understood both in relation to the trust posed in the neutrality of algorithmic action and governance, but also in others, such as the ‘wisdom of the crowd’
High heels
Full text linkIncreasingly contested as compulsory items of workers’ dress codes, high heels continue to code power and success. But as an aesthetic ideal high heeled shoes raise questions about commodification as well as social and economic control. As items of glamour they signal and sometimes replace affluence and independence. As objects of fetish high heeled shoes stand in as a reassuring spectacle. As markers of success they contribute to a model of female achievement that requires a transformation. But as prostheses the artifice and transformability of high heels allows for playfulness and re-appropriation, and for disruption wherever they insert incongruity into the otherwise fluid processes of (organized) life.</p
Real Time Bidding System
Full text linkThe chapter focuses on Real-Time Bidding (RTB) as representative of the market devices by which the commercialisation of attention is currently organized. RTB enables advertisers (in the form of automated agents) to select and target Internet and social media users in real time and through multiple third-party websites. In so doing, the devices and machinations of digital advertising bring into being complex chains of parasitic (in Serres's sense) inhabitations as advertisers, publishers, fraudsters, bots, etc. jockey for the best positions from which to intercept and divert money and attention
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