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From: Carole Brooke
Sent: 17 December 2009 13:44
To: 'Carole Brooke'
Subject: FW: [isworld] CfP "Sociomateriality of IS and Organizations",
12-13 March 2010 Sydney
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From: Critical Approaches to Information Systems
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Subject: FW: [isworld] CfP "Sociomateriality of IS and Organizations",
12-13 March 2010 Sydney
I would have forwarded this anyway, but it has more relevance in ligt of
recent postings
Mike
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From: Dubravka Cecez-Kecmanovic [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 16 December 2009 03:21
To: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network
Subject: [isworld] CfP "Sociomateriality of IS and Organizations", 12-13
March 2010 Sydney
Call for papers
UNSW-Bentley University Working Conference "On sociality, materiality
and sociomateriality of Information Systems and organizations"
12-13 March 2010, Sydney, Australia
Conference website:
http://www.fce.unsw.edu.au/contribute2/sistm/SMISO2010HomePage.htm
This Working Conference aims to revisit some fundamental questions
regarding the nature of IS and organizations and their contested
relationships and explore new approaches inspired by recent theoretical
debates known as the 'practical turn' and the 'material turn' in
sociology of science and technology, social anthropology, cultural and
post-colonial studies, geography and philosophy, among others. These
debates are relevant for our understanding of the nature of IS and
organizations as they question the supposed ontological boundaries
between the social and the technological, the subject and the object,
the world of persons and the world of things; they are also relevant for
our ways of knowing as they challenge the conventional modernist
binaries between idealism and materialism, subjectivism and objectivism
(realism), and explore new bridges between them. These debates in many
ways deal with some of the key problems of IS in organizations and
society. And yet, it is curious to note, they have had a scant impact on
our disciplinary debates, despite the early work of those of the
socio-technical school (see for example Mumford, 2006 for a review), and
the issues raised in King and Lyytinen
(2006) concerning the IT artefact.
Since its infancy Information Systems (IS) research has struggled to
reconcile the technological and the human/social/organizational nature
of information systems, and to investigate them in a comprehensive and
coherent way. Most IS research assumes a conventional duality between
the technological (material) and the social/human. This is reflected in
both the technology focused perspectives (e.g., Benbasat & Zmud, 2003)
and the social/organizational perspectives on IS (e.g., Mingers &
Willcocks, 2004). This presents a conceptual difficulty when faced with
the everyday IS-mediated work and the ways technological and social are
inextricably linked in organizing. The key challenge for IS researchers
has been to understand the composite nature of IS-organization reality
and "the recursive intertwining of humans and technology in practice"
(Orlikowski, 2007); what Sassen and others talk of in terms of
imbrication (e.g., Latham & Sassen, 2005). As we understand an intimate
tangle of IS and organization, their co-emergence, co-production, and
mediation, it becomes more urgent for the 'conceptual bubble" of the
social/material duality to burst (Woolgar, 2002).
The Conference will examine the issues of sociality and materiality of
IS and organizations and the ways to understand and conceptualize
IS-organization sociomateriality. It will provide an opportunity for and
stimulate multi-disciplinary and trans-continental debates about the
following themes and questions:
* What is the stuff that IS, work practices and organizations are made
of? How do humans and technology co-constitute and co-perform work and
the world (organization)?
* When an IS becomes 'implemented', 'rolled out', 'used' , 'adopted' or
'rejected' what is actually happening with and among people, their
identities, work practices, organization and technology?
* IS and organizations as sites of sociotechnical entanglement, of
co-production of sociality and materiality or sociomateriality; *
Approaches to understanding IS and organization co-evolution,
co-performance and co-production; * Challenges of a radical move
towards 'object-centered-sociality', e.g.
IS enacted sociality; IS-mediated organization sociality and
materiality; * Do IS have 'intentionality' and 'agency' or how do they
act?
* The coming into being of an IS: IS development as techno-scientific
or sociomaterial practices?
* IS development as linguistic/discursive and material/technical
productions * The sociality and materiality of IS and ontological
politics of IS development and use * Research approaches and
methodological concerns in studying the recursive intertwining of the
social and technological and the constitutive entanglement of an
organization and its IS (such as ANT)
Keynote speakers: Wai Fong Chua, UNSW, and Susan Scott, LSE
Important dates: Send an expression of interest NOW
Extended abstracts 31 Jan 2010
Draft papers 5 March 2010
Venue: Crowne Plaza Coogee Beach hotel
Selected papers will be published in special issues of Australasian
Journal of IS (AJIS) and International Journal of ANT and Technological
Innovation (IJANTTI).
Conference co-chairs:
Dubravka Cecez-Kecmanovic, UNSW ([log in to unmask]) Richard Vidgen,
UNSW ([log in to unmask]) Robert Galliers, Bentley University
([log in to unmask]) Susan Newell, Bentley University
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Organizing chair:
Fletcher Cole, UNSW ([log in to unmask])
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