Battery as a mediating technology of organization
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The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies. ed. / Timon Beyes; Claus Pias; Robin Holt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. p. 26–33.
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T1 - Battery as a mediating technology of organization
AU - Müggenburg, Jan Klaus
PY - 2019/12/24
Y1 - 2019/12/24
N2 - This chapter is dedicated to batteries as media of spatio-temporal organization. In a first step, the history of (rechargeable) batteries is summarized with special regard to their influence on the emergence of digital cultures. This is followed by a systematic discussion of their ambivalent role between expansion and destabilization of electrical networks, which in digital cultures manifests itself in the phenomenon of duration or range anxiety. Finally, it is argued that this ambivalent organizational mediality of batteries (including their ecological consequences) is inseparably linked to their perception as humanistic technology.
AB - This chapter is dedicated to batteries as media of spatio-temporal organization. In a first step, the history of (rechargeable) batteries is summarized with special regard to their influence on the emergence of digital cultures. This is followed by a systematic discussion of their ambivalent role between expansion and destabilization of electrical networks, which in digital cultures manifests itself in the phenomenon of duration or range anxiety. Finally, it is argued that this ambivalent organizational mediality of batteries (including their ecological consequences) is inseparably linked to their perception as humanistic technology.
KW - Digital media
KW - batteries
KW - accumulators
KW - history of electricity
KW - electric mobility
KW - electrochemical energy
KW - range anxiety
KW - green technology
KW - natural resources
KW - Spatio-temporal organization
UR - https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-media-technology-and-organization-studies-9780198809913?facet_narrowbypubdate_facet=This%20Month&lang=en&cc=gb#
U2 - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198809913.013.3
DO - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198809913.013.3
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
SN - 978–0–19–880991–3
SP - 26
EP - 33
BT - The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies
A2 - Beyes, Timon
A2 - Pias, Claus
A2 - Holt, Robin
PB - Oxford University Press
CY - Oxford
ER -