Overlit: Digital Architectures of Visibility

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI:10.1177/26317877221090314

Mikkel Flyverbom

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Abstract

Despite the ubiquity of digital technologies, data-driven approaches and algorithms, organization theory so far only engages with these developments in limited ways. A deeper engagement with the organizational ramifications of a digital, datafied world is urgently needed and must start from mappings of the phenomenon and the development of better theoretical vocabularies that can guide future research. Complementing the essays by Zuboff and Power in this exchange, my essay suggests a research agenda based on how digital technologies, data and algorithms impact and shape our lives in and around organizations by making us visible in novel ways. I unpack the technological and operational underpinnings of this phenomenon in two steps. The first is a broad conceptualization of the overall shape of what I term ‘digital architectures’. The second is a more granular theorization of how data-driven, algorithmic approaches make the ‘management of visibilities’ a central concern for humans, organizations and societies, as well as some reflections on possible responses to these developments. Taken together, these discussions highlight how digital ubiquity calls for novel theoretical perspectives and research avenues for organization theory to explore.

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Overlit:可见性的数字架构

尽管数字技术、数据驱动的方法和算法无处不在，但到目前为止，组织理论仅以有限的方式参与这些发展。迫切需要与数字化、数据化世界的组织分支进行更深入的接触，必须从现象的映射和更好的理论词汇的发展开始，这些词汇可以指导未来的研究。作为对祖伯夫和鲍尔在这次交流中的文章的补充，我的文章提出了一个研究议程，该议程基于数字技术、数据和算法如何通过以新颖的方式使我们可见，影响和塑造我们在组织内部和周围的生活。我分两步阐述了这一现象的技术和操作基础。第一个是我所说的“数字架构”的整体形态的广义概念化。第二部分是对数据驱动的算法方法如何使“可见性管理”成为人类、组织和社会关注的中心问题的更细致的理论化，以及对这些发展的可能反应的一些反思。综上所述，这些讨论强调了数字无处不在如何需要新的理论视角和研究途径来探索组织理论。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

期刊介绍： Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.