1st Edition
Dis/organization as Communication Exploring the Disordering, Disruptive and Chaotic Properties of Communication
Introduction
Part I
Communicational Explanations of Dis/Organization
1 Constituting Order and Disorder: Embracing Tensions and
Contradictions
Linda L. Putnam
2 Communication as Dis/Organization: How to Analyze
Tensions from a Relational Perspective
François Cooren and Pascale Caïdor
3 The Queen Bee Outlives Her Own Children: A Luhmannian
Perspective on Project-Based Organizations (PBOs)
Michael Grothe-Hammer and Dennis Schoeneborn
4 Rethinking Order and Disorder: Accounting for
Disequilibrium in Knotted Systems of Paradoxical Tensions
Gail T. Fairhurst and Mathew L. Sheep
5 Feeling Things, Making Waste: Hoarding and the
Dis/Organization of Affect
Karen Lee Ashcraft
6 Communication Constitutes Capital: Branding and the
Politics of Neoliberal Dis/Organization
Dennis K. Mumby
Part II
Methodological Toolbox for Studying Dis/Organization
7 Dis/Ordering: The Use of Information and Communication
Technologies by Human Rights Civil Society Organizations
Oana Brindusa Albu
8 Disorganizing Through Texts: The Case of A.K. Rice’s
Account of Socio-technical Systems Theory
Anindita Banerjee and Brian Bloomfield
9 The Paradox of Digital Civic Participation: A
Disorganization Approach
Amanda J. Porter and Michele H. Jackson
10 Organizing from Disorder: Internet Memes as
Subversive Style
Peter Winkler and Jens Seiffert -Brockmann
11 Extreme Context as Figures of Normalcy and Emergency:
Reorganizing a Large-Scale Vaccine Campaign in the
DR Congo
Frédérik Matte
Biography
Consuelo Vásquez is an Associate Professor in the Département de Communication Sociale et Publique at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada. Her research interests include ethnography, project organizing, volunteering and the communicative constitution of organizations. Her work appears in such venues as Communication Theory, Human Relations and Qualitative Research in Organizational and Management.
Timothy R. Kuhn is Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA. His research addresses the constitution of authority and agency in organizational action, with particular attention to how knowledge, identities, and conceptions of value emerge in sociomaterial, power-laden communication practices. His research has been published in Organization Studies, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Annals, Organization, Management Communication Quarterly, and Communication Monographs, among others.
