Negotiating the Socio-Material in and about Information Systems: An Approach to Native Methods

Negotiating the Socio-Material in and about Information Systems: An Approach to Native Methods

Fletcher T. H. Cole
ISBN13: 9781466615595|ISBN10: 1466615591|EISBN13: 9781466615601
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-1559-5.ch012
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Cole, Fletcher T. H. "Negotiating the Socio-Material in and about Information Systems: An Approach to Native Methods." Social Influences on Information and Communication Technology Innovations, edited by Arthur Tatnall, IGI Global, 2012, pp. 173-182. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1559-5.ch012

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Cole, F. T. (2012). Negotiating the Socio-Material in and about Information Systems: An Approach to Native Methods. In A. Tatnall (Ed.), Social Influences on Information and Communication Technology Innovations (pp. 173-182). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1559-5.ch012

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Cole, Fletcher T. H. "Negotiating the Socio-Material in and about Information Systems: An Approach to Native Methods." In Social Influences on Information and Communication Technology Innovations, edited by Arthur Tatnall, 173-182. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2012. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1559-5.ch012

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Abstract

Recent moves to more explicitly account for the relationship between the social and the material in the Information Systems discipline, under the banner of socio-materiality, also imply the need for a closer examination of practice. Using John Law’s (2004) exposition of “method assemblage” as foregrounding and backgrounding a re-reading of Jonathan Grudin’s (1990) account of the various delineations of the computer interface is attempted. It is offered as a preliminary orientation to some of the native “ethno-methods”, (discursive and embodied practices) which might be deployed to negotiate sociality and materiality in IS and other technical arenas.

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