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Working and Organizing as Social Problems: Reconceptualizing Organizational Communication's Domain

Working and Organizing as Social Problems: Reconceptualizing Organizational Communication's Domain

Timothy Kuhn
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 13
ISBN13: 9781522528234|ISBN10: 1522528237|EISBN13: 9781522528241
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2823-4.ch002
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Kuhn, Timothy. "Working and Organizing as Social Problems: Reconceptualizing Organizational Communication's Domain." Transformative Practice and Research in Organizational Communication, edited by Philip J. Salem and Erik Timmerman, IGI Global, 2018, pp. 30-42. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2823-4.ch002

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Kuhn, T. (2018). Working and Organizing as Social Problems: Reconceptualizing Organizational Communication's Domain. In P. Salem & E. Timmerman (Eds.), Transformative Practice and Research in Organizational Communication (pp. 30-42). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2823-4.ch002

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Kuhn, Timothy. "Working and Organizing as Social Problems: Reconceptualizing Organizational Communication's Domain." In Transformative Practice and Research in Organizational Communication, edited by Philip J. Salem and Erik Timmerman, 30-42. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2823-4.ch002

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Abstract

Typical renderings of the domain of organizational communication focus on topics, perspectives, and persons. These perspectives encourage an attention to the boundaries surrounding the field, but have little to offer questions about the relevance of the field's work to pressing social problems. Consequently, I explore how we might enhance our scholarship's capability to engage with important social problems. I start with a discussion of problems encountered in working and organizing under contemporary capitalism, and then consider how novel conceptions of organization and communication can generate novel questions into, and insights about, these problems. Specifically, I argue for the relevance of attending to the “gig economy” and the precarity associated with it, and highlight the value of a relational ontology of communication as a vehicle for heurism and engagement with social problems.

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