Communication and Materiality: A Conversation from the<i>CM Café</i>

Aakhus, Mark; Ballard, Dawna I.; Flanagin, Andrew J.; Kuhn, Timothy; Leonardi, Paul M.; Mease, Jennifer J.; Miller, Katherine E.

doi:10.1080/03637751.2011.618358

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“…Their ontology refuses reductionism—of meaning and “thingness” to either symbolism or realism, as well as a refusal to reduce agency to human capacities. Refusing reductionism in this sense is consistent with calls made by others interested in developing richer conceptions of communication and materiality (e.g., Aakhus et al, ; Cloud, ; Greene, ; Kuhn, ; Leonardi & Barley, ; Wood & Cox, ). Finally, this paper is suggestive of a revision to the way we understand order in social life.…”

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Extending the Constitutive Project: Response to Cooren and Sandler

Kuhn

2014

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As Cooren and Sandler note in their paper, communication studies has largely received Bakhtin as a theorist of dialogue, but such a framing limits his potential contributions to our thinking. They argue that when we seek to understand the communicative constitution of reality, Bakhtin's work can lead us in novel and fruitful directions. I find their claims compelling, and thus this response is more appreciative critique and argument for extension than contestation. Here, I first discuss the significant contributions the paper makes, and then turn to 3 critiques that provide a capacity to extend the influence of Cooren and Sandler's ideas.

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Extending the Constitutive Project: Response to Cooren and Sandler

Kuhn

2014

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“…Integrated Structuration: Action in Structure and Structure in Action Aakhus et al (2011) remind scholars that while social structures are foundations for human behavior and interaction, they are not deterministic, nor absolute. As an example, the deinstitutionalization movement restructured mental health care in the United States (Lamb & Bachrach, 2001).…”

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The Structuration of Community-Based Mental Health Care: A Duality Analysis of a Volunteer Group’s Local Agency

Zanin

Piercy

2018

Qual Health Res

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Using a lens of structuration theory, this study highlights the ways that specific structures within the current community-based model of mental health care might enable and constrain individuals and families living with mental illness. Through a case study of a volunteer mental illness advocacy group, the authors employed a duality analysis on a variety of data collected from the case (i.e., interviews, organizational documents, and community health care data). Findings indicate that while group members encountered structural barriers to their organizational mission, they also used communicative agency creatively and collectively to (re)create structures within the current community-based model of mental health care. Member agency is examined in relation to perceived structural influence. Theoretical and practical applications of the findings are discussed.

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“…Additionally, in this paper, we will be discussing material and discourse, terms with diverse and contested meanings and uses (Aakhus et al, 2011;Leonardi, 2012). To define the material, we follow Ashcraft, Kuhn, and Cooren (2009), who use sites, objects, and bodies to designate the material.…”

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Collective Action Without Organization: The Material Constitution of Bike Commuters as Collective

Wilhoit

Kisselburgh

2015

Organization Studies

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This study uses a novel situation of organizing, bicycle commuting, to develop an argument regarding the requirements for collective action and increased autonomy for the material in constituting organizations. We found that through individual material and spatial practices, bike commuters constitute themselves as a collective, making their presence known and creating possibility for change. However, bike commuters' discourses indicate that they do not experience a collective identity or sense of community of practice. We use this study to extend two areas of theory. First, we suggest that collective action can take place without organization or organizing: individual activities can aggregate to have an effect even if they are not officially coordinated or members do not acknowledge membership in a collective. Second, we suggest that this example moves beyond previous work on the communicative constitution of organizations to suggest that the material can constitute a collective, even without human, discursive recognition of it.

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Communication and Materiality: A Conversation from theCM Café

Cited by 14 publications

References 5 publications

Extending the Constitutive Project: Response to Cooren and Sandler

Extending the Constitutive Project: Response to Cooren and Sandler

The Structuration of Community-Based Mental Health Care: A Duality Analysis of a Volunteer Group’s Local Agency

Collective Action Without Organization: The Material Constitution of Bike Commuters as Collective

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