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The Materiality of Technology: An Affordance Perspective

Faraj, Samer, Azad, Bijan·2012·Materiality and Organizing
DOI 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199664054.003.0012
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The research at the nexus of technology-organizational change has converged on the materiality of technology as a fundamental theoretical concern. This chapter highlights three major weaknesses in how the extant research conceptualizes technology: conflation of product categories over technologies; superimposition of feature and technology; and static conception of technology over time. The chapter then points out how these weaknesses tend to decontextualize technology-in-use and thus underemphasize technology's materiality. The chapter then goes on to propose affordances as a viable scaffolding to undergird the development of a conceptual apparatus that takes account of materiality more holistically and in a more relational manner. The chapter concludes by pointing out the challenges ahead in the further development of the affordances concept to account for technology's materiality.

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Authors
Faraj, S., & Azad, B.
Venue
Materiality and Organizing
Publisher
Oxford University PressOxford
Published
2012-11-22
Pages
237-258
DOI
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199664054.003.0012
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583
References
11
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130.50
Type
book chapter
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en
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