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ICTs in the Contemporary World seminar
Sociomateriality: A Practice Lens on Technology at Work
Professor Wanda Orlikowski
Sloan School of Management, MIT and Information Systems and Innovation Group, LSE
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Thursday 14 June, 2007 11.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m.
Fifth Floor, Tower One
Over the years, research studies into the relationship between humans and information technology within organizations have generated important insights into the powerful consequences of technology in organizational life. But as they have often privileged one side or the other of the relationship, such studies have largely overlooked the ways in which people and tools are constitutively entangled. Drawing on a practice lens, I will consider how the notion of sociomateriality may afford some valuable insights into the reciprocal and temporally emergent interactions of humans and technology, as these are realized in different contexts and over time. I will offer some empirical examples to help ground and illustrate this approach in practice.
Wanda J. Orlikowski is the Eaton-Peabody Chair of Communication Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Professor of Information Technologies and Organization Studies at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Her primary research interest focuses on the dynamic relationship between organizations and information technologies, with particular emphases on organizing structures, cultural norms, communication genres, and work practices. She is currently serving as a Visiting Centennial Professor in the Information Systems and Innovation group at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Please note places will be available on a first-come-first-serve basis - registration is not required. For any further queries regarding this seminar or to request information about future events please contact Frances White, Research Coordinator
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