TY - CHAP

T1 - Calendar

AU - Hoof, Florian

PY - 2019/12/12

Y1 - 2019/12/12

N2 - This chapter dwells on the calendar and more specifically on personal time management systems as a technology that mediates between the organization and the individual. The calendar is discussed as a technical medium of standardization and modularization as well as a medium of cultural synchronization, which provides an interface between the demands of an organization and those of its employees. Following Weber’s claim on the interrelatedness of capitalism and the Christian conduct of life, the calendar is discussed as a medium of Protestantism and as an integral part of the media and cultural history of the rationalization of the self.

AB - This chapter dwells on the calendar and more specifically on personal time management systems as a technology that mediates between the organization and the individual. The calendar is discussed as a technical medium of standardization and modularization as well as a medium of cultural synchronization, which provides an interface between the demands of an organization and those of its employees. Following Weber’s claim on the interrelatedness of capitalism and the Christian conduct of life, the calendar is discussed as a medium of Protestantism and as an integral part of the media and cultural history of the rationalization of the self.

KW - Media and communication studies

KW - calendar

KW - organization

KW - medium

KW - protestantism

KW - religion

KW - technology

KW - max weber

U2 - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198809913.013.46

DO - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198809913.013.46

M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

SN - 9780198809913

SP - 54

EP - 67

BT - Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies

A2 - Beyes, Timon

A2 - Holt, Robin

A2 - Pias, Claus

PB - Oxford University Press

CY - Oxford

ER -