Entanglements in Practice:  Performing Anonymity Through Social Media

Scott, Susan V.; Orlikowski, Wanda J.

doi:10.25300/misq/2014/38.3.11

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“…In this view organisations can reap substantial benefits if actors are willing to share information about themselves and their work (Leonardi 2014). In fact, it is what social media conceals as well as what it reveals that can be of great advantage in a professional setting (Scott and Orlikowski 2014). The dominant assumption in social media studies is that the platforms provide actors with a degree of control over how they are perceived by their professional networks (Leonardi 2014).…”

Section: Professional Self-presentations On Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

The Perils and Promises of Self-Disclosure on Social Media

2017

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In addition to their professional social media accounts, individuals are increasingly using their personal profiles and casual posts to communicate their identities to work colleagues. They do this in order to 'stand out from the crowd' and to signal attributes that are difficult to showcase explicitly in a work setting. Existing studies have tended to treat personal posts viewed in a professional context as a problem, since they can threaten impression management efforts. These accounts focus on the attempts of individuals to separate their life domains on social media. In contrast, we present the narratives of professional IT workers in India who intentionally disrupt the boundaries between personal and professional profiles in order to get noticed by their employers. Drawing on the dramaturgical vocabulary of Goffman (1959) we shed light on how individuals cope with increased levels of self-disclosure on social media. We argue that their self-presentations can be likened to post-modern performances in which the traditional boundaries between actor and audience are intentionally unsettled. These casual posts communicate additional personal traits that are not otherwise included in professional presentations. Since there are no strict boundaries between formal front-stage and relaxed back-stage regions in these types of performance, a liminal mental state is often used, which enables a better assessment of the type of information to present on social media.

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Section: Professional Self-presentations On Social Mediamentioning

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The Perils and Promises of Self-Disclosure on Social Media

2017

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“…Meanwhile, the sociomaterial imbrication lens (Leonardi 2011;Leonardi and Rodriguez-Lluesma 2013;Niemimaa 2016) provided an interesting angle. However, we believe that the entanglement approach (Orlikowski and Scott 2008;Scott and Orlikowski 2014) also has its merits-for example, when the technology becomes an extension of human agency. Requiring as it does time and iteration, we believe entanglement will become more and more evident in the future with the development of new technology such as helmets or technological wearables.…”

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Decision-Making in the Police Work Force: Affordances Explained in Practice

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Rutkowski

2018

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Studies of decision-making in High Reliability Organizations as supported by Information Technology have mostly pertained to the "cold" context, that is, the planning and briefing tasks that precede intervention. Meanwhile, the degree of elasticity required of High Reliability Teams during critical processes is key to stabilizing team performance and can be enhanced through the use of technology. However, off-the-shelf technologies are often used in organizations without due consideration of their impact on task interdependence and affordance. This article presents the results from a threestep explorative field study that investigated the effects of the imbrication between human (e.g., users) and material (e.g., technology) agencies on the decision-making processes used by a police force. Particularly, we address the impact on the individual, collective, and shared affordances of mobile technology (i.e., smartphone) in terms of the daily work routine of officers on the streets. Teams of police officers were shadowed during their daily work for a period of 80 hours. This article presents the findings in the form of four vignettes. The approach used proved useful for determining the affordance of technology in relation to task interdependence on micro-processes and decision-making.

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“…The arguments above position our research with the ability to explain the reality of contemporary organisations, which are highly digitized with technologies such as social media that are inherently dynamic and multifarious (Scott and Orlikowski 2014).…”

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“…Secondly, the strategy as practice perspective is relevant as it can unravel the complex dynamics of strategy as it considers the social context in which the strategy is formulated; thus, it gives insight on a reality that is dynamic and complex. Furthermore, because social media is intertwined with social and technical elements (Scott and Orlikowski 2014), the strategy as practice perspective offers a valuable means of understanding its role in an organisation's strategy as it focuses on practice which is an interplay between people and technology in organisations (Whittington 2014).…”

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Enhancing Organisational Competitiveness Via Social Media - a Strategy as Practice Perspective

2017

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The affordances, popularity and pervasive use of social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram have made these platforms attractive to organisations for enhancing their competitiveness and creating business value. Despite this apparent significance of social media for businesses, they are struggling with the development of a social media strategy as well as understanding the implications of social media on practice within their organisations. This paper explores how social media has become a tool for competitiveness and its influence on organisational strategy and practice. Using the 'strategy as practice' lens and guided by the interpretivist philosophy, this paper uses the empirical case of a telecom organisation in Tanzania. The findings show that social media is influencing competitiveness through imitation and product development. Also, the findings indicate how social media affects the practices within an organisation, consequently making the social media strategy an emergent phenomenon.

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Entanglements in Practice: Performing Anonymity Through Social Media

Cited by 247 publications

References 75 publications

The Perils and Promises of Self-Disclosure on Social Media

The Perils and Promises of Self-Disclosure on Social Media

Decision-Making in the Police Work Force: Affordances Explained in Practice

Enhancing Organisational Competitiveness Via Social Media - a Strategy as Practice Perspective

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