Governing Through Technology Information Artefacts and Social Practice [Hardcover]

Information produced and disseminated by an interlocking ecology of computer-based systems and artifacts currently provides the essential means for planning organizational operations and controlling organizational performances. This book describes the vital importance?that digital information acquires in restructuring organizations.Technology as an Object of Social Enquiry The Regulative Regime of Technology Boundaries and Freedoms: Re-opening the Black Box of Technology Deconstructing Information Packages: Efficiency versus Governance Control and Complexity in a Connected World Cognitive Foundations of Work: The Workplace as Information Information Tokens and Reality: A Parable of the InternetJANNIS KALLINIKOS is professor in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics, UK. His current research focuses on the study of technological information in all its forms (text, voice, image) and digital formats and the implications its diffusion carries for organizations and institutions.