Organization as A Multi-dimensional Network ...
Document type :
Communication dans un congrès avec actes
Title :
Organization as A Multi-dimensional Network of Actants Mediated by An Organized and Organizing Network of Cultural Rules
Author(s) :
Hardy, Mylene [Auteur]
Groupe d'Études et de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Information et COmmunication - ULR 4073 [GERIICO ]
Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Information et des Systèmes [LSIS]
Agostinelli, Serge [Auteur]
Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Information et des Systèmes [LSIS]
Groupe d'Études et de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Information et COmmunication - ULR 4073 [GERIICO ]
Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Information et des Systèmes [LSIS]
Agostinelli, Serge [Auteur]
Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Information et des Systèmes [LSIS]
Conference title :
International Communication Association Preconference: “What is an Organization? Materiality, Agency and Discourse”
Country :
Canada
Start date of the conference :
2008-05-22
Book title :
International Communication Association Preconference: “What is an Organization? Materiality, Agency and Discourse”
Publisher :
Université de Montréal - édité sur clef USB
Publication date :
2008-05-20
Keyword(s) :
réseau
émergence
culture
règles
agence
émergence
culture
règles
agence
English keyword(s) :
network
rules
agency
rules
agency
HAL domain(s) :
Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences/domain_shs.info.orga
Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences/domain_shs.info.theo
Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences/domain_shs.info.theo
French abstract :
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English abstract : [en]
This paper aims to provide a complementary perspective to the Montreal School's conceptual framework on the organizing properties of communication. The network metaphor is used to address two issues of this theory: how to ...
Show more >This paper aims to provide a complementary perspective to the Montreal School's conceptual framework on the organizing properties of communication. The network metaphor is used to address two issues of this theory: how to link entities with variable ontologies together and how to explain that entities are objects (inherent ontology) and mediators (relational ontology) at the same time? Networks are considered both as material structures (directed graphs seen as topological objects) and as abstracted ones (matrixes). Complex networks display structural properties when they emerge as structures. However, the emergence of structure is only considered as a realization of one of the virtual states and possible patterns of a meta-network made up of at least three networks on several dimensions: a material network of actants, a cognitive network and a cultural network of rules. The latter network is linked to human entities only. Cultural rules are seen as habitus, i.e. kinds of force fields that guide but do not determine action. Human agency is constrained by cultural rules so that human beings are able to reproduce social systems. Agency is also seen as continuous modification and displacement. It modifies the structure of the network of actants and that of the network of rules. The network of actants makes the network of rules evolve through feedback loops. The network of rules generates calculations in the cognitive network. Sensemaking results from the continuous process of reproduction-modification of the cognitive structure.Show less >
Show more >This paper aims to provide a complementary perspective to the Montreal School's conceptual framework on the organizing properties of communication. The network metaphor is used to address two issues of this theory: how to link entities with variable ontologies together and how to explain that entities are objects (inherent ontology) and mediators (relational ontology) at the same time? Networks are considered both as material structures (directed graphs seen as topological objects) and as abstracted ones (matrixes). Complex networks display structural properties when they emerge as structures. However, the emergence of structure is only considered as a realization of one of the virtual states and possible patterns of a meta-network made up of at least three networks on several dimensions: a material network of actants, a cognitive network and a cultural network of rules. The latter network is linked to human entities only. Cultural rules are seen as habitus, i.e. kinds of force fields that guide but do not determine action. Human agency is constrained by cultural rules so that human beings are able to reproduce social systems. Agency is also seen as continuous modification and displacement. It modifies the structure of the network of actants and that of the network of rules. The network of actants makes the network of rules evolve through feedback loops. The network of rules generates calculations in the cognitive network. Sensemaking results from the continuous process of reproduction-modification of the cognitive structure.Show less >
Language :
Anglais
Peer reviewed article :
Oui
Audience :
Non spécifiée
Popular science :
Non
Comment :
Programme du colloque : www.groupelog.umontreal.ca/anglais/LOGConferenceProgram.pdf
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