Coffee Machine as a mediating technology of organization
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Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology and Organization Studies . ed. / Timon Beyes; Robin Holt; Claus Pias. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. p. 116-124.
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T1 - Coffee Machine as a mediating technology of organization
AU - Bachmann, Götz
AU - Bialski, Paula
PY - 2019/12/12
Y1 - 2019/12/12
N2 - Technologies of coffee making and drinking at the workplace and in break rooms provide us with field-internal analytical devices for organizational research. Drawing on five ethnographic stories—prohibited coffee cups in an insurance office; coffee machine battles in a TV studio; the simulation of coffee sociality in a software company; turbulences between two work break shifts in a department store; and the exclusive coffee club in a data services company—this chapter argues that analysing organizational life through the lens of coffee provision is not without pitfalls, but can nevertheless give us useful access to an organization’s inner workings.
AB - Technologies of coffee making and drinking at the workplace and in break rooms provide us with field-internal analytical devices for organizational research. Drawing on five ethnographic stories—prohibited coffee cups in an insurance office; coffee machine battles in a TV studio; the simulation of coffee sociality in a software company; turbulences between two work break shifts in a department store; and the exclusive coffee club in a data services company—this chapter argues that analysing organizational life through the lens of coffee provision is not without pitfalls, but can nevertheless give us useful access to an organization’s inner workings.
KW - Digital media
KW - Media and communication studies
UR - https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-media-technology-and-organization-studies-9780198809913?q=Media%2C%20Technology%2C%20and%20Organization%20Studies&lang=en&cc=pl#
U2 - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198809913.013.11
DO - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198809913.013.11
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
SN - 9780198809913
SP - 116
EP - 124
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 -