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The Materiality of Technology: An Affordance Perspective
Abstract
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
- OpenAlex
- W2483583446
- Cited by
- 583
- References
- 11
- FWCI
- 130.50
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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