- 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
The ‘desk’ is an assemblage intimately related to organization and organizing. It is a ‘comprehensive architectonic of social order’, both in its material forms and in its mediation of social relations in which particular forms of knowledge and power have become deeply embedded within the modern world. However, the desk reveals not a fixed contribution to modernity but an ever-changing reflection of multiple significances in different times and at different places. So it would be foolish to fully accept the contemporary rhetoric of the death of the desk, an object placed at the very centre of material and epistemological concerns for centuries and still playing its part.
Keywords: desk, organization, bureaucracy, Weber, writing, post-bureaucratic, desktops, technology
Professor of Organization Studies, Lancaster University Management School, UK
Professor of Organization Theory, School of Business, University of Leicester, UK and University of Manchester, UK
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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