1st Edition
Social Media, Work and Organisations Narratives of Identity, Power and Control
Introduction: About this book
Section 1: The Opening: Concepts, Corporate Environments, and Central Characters
Section 2. Act 1: Adopting, shaping, and staging social media use in organisations
Act 1. Scene 1: Hegemonic forces: How organisations adopt, stage, and use particular social media in work
Act 1. Scene 2: Players and voices: How differing organisational actors adopt, stage, and use a variety of social media in work
Section 3. Act 2: Digitised regimes of power: How control and surveillance are established at work
Act 2. Scene 1: Discipling discourses: social media rules and regulation
Act 2. Scene 2: Digital panopticons: Towers of surveillance in social media use
Section 4. Act 3: Evolving identities and dramaturgical performance online
Act 3. Scene 1: The multidimensional self: Identity and new ways of being online
Act 3. Scene 2: Keeping up appearances: aesthetic labour in digitised working contexts
Section 5. Act 4: Conflict, resistance, and social media (mis) behaviours
Act 4. Scene 1: Can you hear me? Stories of resistance, employee voice, and sousveillance in online contexts
Act 4. Scene 2: People do dumb stuff on social media: Novel crimes and contradictory social media (mis)behaviours
Finale: Illusory social butterflies: Conclusions, future research, and reading
Biography
Claire Taylor is a principal lecturer in human resource management at Nottingham Trent University. Her research interests and recent publications have focused on employment relations, social media use, identity, emerging surveillance and sousveillance practices, organisational (mis)behaviour, and the impact these have on freedom of expression, employee voice, management approaches, and power dynamics at work.
