A53. Rice,
R.E. & Gattiker, U. (2001). New media and organizational
structuring.
In F. Jablin & L. Putnam (Eds.), New handbook of organizational
communication
(pp. 554-581.) Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
This chapter reviews the influence of organizational structures on
implementation
and use of computer-mediated communication and information systems
(CIS),
and the (re) structuring of organizational meaning and relations
through
CIS. Organizational structures represent boundaries (physical,
bureaucratic,
regulatory, cultural, national) that constrain and facilitate CIS, and
CIS
also constrain and facilitate new organizational structuring. Various
theories,
actors, and issues are used to identify some of the more important of
these
structural constraints and influences. While traditional media involve
structures
that are sublimated into "natural" artifacts by practice and
stereotypes,
CIS enable structures that allow the content and relations of
organizations
to sublimate to new forms.
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