[Commlist] new book: Organize

We would like to announce a new publication from the University of 
Minnesota Press, which we hope will be of interest.

*Organize***

*Timon Beyes, Lisa Conrad & Reinhold Martin & Afterword by Geert Lovink 
& Ned Rossiter***

*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/organize_*

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Media organize things into patterns and relations. As intermediaries 
among people and between people and worlds, media shape sociotechnical 
orders. At the same time, media are organized: while they condition 
different organizational forms and processes, they, too, are formed and 
can be re-formed. This intimate relation of media and organizing is 
timeless. Yet arguably, digital media technologies repose the question 
of organization—and thus of power and domination, control and 
surveillance, disruption and emancipation. Bringing together leading 
media thinkers and organization theorists, this book interrogates 
organization as an effect and condition of media. How can we understand 
the recursive relation between media and organization? How can we think, 
explore, critique, and perhaps alter the organizational bodies and 
scripts that shape contemporary life?

/Organize/will be of interest to scholars and students of new and old 
media, social organization, and technology. Moreover, the dialogical 
form of these essays provides a concise and path-breaking view on the 
recursive relation between technological media and social organization. 
The book therefore establishes and maps “media and organization” as a 
highly relevant field of inquiry, appealing to those with a critical 
interest in the technological conditioning of the social.

*Timon Beyes* is professor in sociology of organization and culture at 
Leuphana University of Lüneburg.

*Lisa Conrad* is lecturer at the Institute for Sociology and Cultural 
Organisation, Leuphana University of Lüneburg.

*Reinhold Martin *is professor of architecture at Columbia University.

*Geert Lovin*k is founder of the Institute of Network Cultures at the 
Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.

*Ned Rossiter* is professor of communication at Western Sydney University.


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