TY - JOUR

T1 - The organizational powers of (digital) media

AU - Beverungen, Armin

AU - Beyes, Timon

AU - Conrad, Lisa

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2019.

PY - 2019/9/1

Y1 - 2019/9/1

N2 - Digital media are pervasive, ubiquitous and mundane constituents of organization. Organized life relies on, and is propelled by, technologies that store, transmit and process data and are based on networked computation. How can we understand and explore the fundamental mediatedness of organization? This article contextualizes and introduces the special issue on ‘The organizational powers of (digital) media’ by staging an encounter between organization theory and media theory. In provoking investigations of the power and effects of technological mediation in its many guises, not least in regard to digital or computational media, this encounter ushers in a ‘medial thought’ of organization.

AB - Digital media are pervasive, ubiquitous and mundane constituents of organization. Organized life relies on, and is propelled by, technologies that store, transmit and process data and are based on networked computation. How can we understand and explore the fundamental mediatedness of organization? This article contextualizes and introduces the special issue on ‘The organizational powers of (digital) media’ by staging an encounter between organization theory and media theory. In provoking investigations of the power and effects of technological mediation in its many guises, not least in regard to digital or computational media, this encounter ushers in a ‘medial thought’ of organization.

KW - Digital media

KW - Computation

KW - digital media

KW - media

KW - media theory

KW - organization

KW - organization theory

KW - technology

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85071485080&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1177/1350508419867206

DO - 10.1177/1350508419867206

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 26

SP - 621

EP - 635

JO - Organization

JF - Organization

SN - 1350-5084

IS - 5

M1 - 867206

ER -