Materiality, Sociomateriality, and Socio-Technical Systems: What Do These Terms Mean? How are They Related? Do We Need Them?

By Paul M. Leonardi. 2012

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Subfields: Computer Science Applications, Sociology and Political Science, Human-Computer Interaction

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How Big Data Analytics Enables Service Innovation: Materiality, Affordance, and the Individualization of Service (2018, background): “, IT infrastructures, software systems, specific algorithms) that have some stability across contexts and across time [22], and that are also described as “continuants” [10].”
Exploring the influence of big data on city transport operations: a Markovian approach (2017, unknown): “Our smart city operations model mediates the role of velocity on system performance (Leonardi, 2012).”
The Management of Visibilities in the Digital Age: Introduction (2016, background): “Recently, Treem and Leonardi (2012) analyzed the large corpus of articles written about how people use digital technologies (social media in particular) in the workplace.”
The Time and Space of Materiality in Organizations and the Natural Environment (2013, background): “The time and space attributes of the mass of physical objects are more immutable than they are for social objects (Leonardi, 2012).”
Automated Media: An Institutional Theory Perspective on Algorithmic Media Production and Consumption (2014, background): “Algorithms possess what scholars of organizations and technology have termed “material agency”—the capacity for nonhuman entities to act absent sustained human intervention (Leonardi, 2012, p. 35).”
Automation, Algorithms, and Beyond: Why Work Design Matters More Than Ever in a Digital World (2020, methodology): “37 the foundations for a renewal of the socio-technical systems approach, meeting earlier critisicms of a one-sided adaptation of the social substystem to the technical subsystem (Leonardi, 2012).”
Theoretical foundations for the study of sociomateriality (2013, background): “For “materiality” to exist as a concept separate from “sociomateriality” is to imply that there are some materials that are not simultaneously social (Leonardi, 2012b).”