Performance as (Dis)organizing: The Case of Discursive Material Practices in Academic Technologies

• DOI: 10.22230/cjc.2014v39n4a2750
• Publication Date: 2017-03-08T23:38:49Z
• Authors: Amanda J. Porter
• Keywords: Materiality; Organization studies; Performative utterance; Dialectic; Empirical Research; Performativity

Recent theorizing in Science and Technology Studies (STS) has taken a “performance” turn. Performative approaches theorize how meaning matter relate the context of situated practices. Scholars organizational communication have also turned to relationship between organization. In this article, I bring together these two strands offer unique lens study materiality as process (dis)organization. Through an empirical analysis academic technology organization, illustrate “performance (dis)organization” lens, detailing three “organizing moves” that encompassed discursive material practices coordinators: boundary working, shaping, relational bridging. conclude by discussing performance (dis)organizing adds dimension theories take seriously practice.