- Account books <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Acoustic Tile <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Battery <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Bicycle <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Bitcoin <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Calendar <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Card <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Chair <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Clock <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Cloud <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Coffee Machine <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Colour Chart <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Container <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Conversational Interface <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Copper <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Copy Machine <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Dating App <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Desk <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Elevator <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Executive Dashboard <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Filter System <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- High Heels <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Interface <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Mind Tracker <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Office Plant <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Overhead Projector <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Paper Shredder <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Pen <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Planning Table <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Prezi <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Price Book <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Push Button <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Pussyhat <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Railway Tracks <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Real Time Bidding System <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Recommender System <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Search Engine <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Smartphone <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Suit <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Telegraph <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Typeface <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Whiteboard, Flipchart <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Wiki <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- By Means of Which: Media, Technology, Organization
Abstract and Keywords
Technologies of coffee making and drinking at the workplace and in break rooms provide us with field-internal analytical devices for organizational research. Drawing on five ethnographic stories—prohibited coffee cups in an insurance office; coffee machine battles in a TV studio; the simulation of coffee sociality in a software company; turbulences between two work break shifts in a department store; and the exclusive coffee club in a data services company—this chapter argues that analysing organizational life through the lens of coffee provision is not without pitfalls, but can nevertheless give us useful access to an organization’s inner workings.
Keywords: coffee, coffee machines, ethnography, organization, work breaks
Professor for Digital Cultures, Institute for Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany
Assistant Professor for Digital Sociality, Institute for Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany
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- Account books <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Acoustic Tile <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Battery <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Bicycle <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Bitcoin <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Calendar <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Card <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Chair <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Clock <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Cloud <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Coffee Machine <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Colour Chart <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Container <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Conversational Interface <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Copper <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Copy Machine <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Dating App <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Desk <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Elevator <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Executive Dashboard <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Filter System <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- High Heels <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Interface <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Mind Tracker <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Office Plant <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Overhead Projector <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Paper Shredder <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Pen <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Planning Table <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Prezi <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Price Book <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Push Button <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Pussyhat <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Railway Tracks <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Real Time Bidding System <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Recommender System <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Search Engine <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Smartphone <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Suit <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Telegraph <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Typeface <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Whiteboard, Flipchart <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- Wiki <span display="online">as a mediating technology of organization</span>
- By Means of Which: Media, Technology, Organization