Sociomateriality: an object inspired proposal for IS scholars

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dc.contributor.authorO'Raghallaigh, Paidi
dc.contributor.authorMcCarthy, Stephen
dc.contributor.authorAdam, Frédéric
dc.contributor.funderScience Foundation Irelanden
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-11T12:04:12Z
dc.date.available2018-06-11T12:04:12Z
dc.date.issued2017-06
dc.date.updated2018-06-11T11:50:02Z
dc.description.abstractThe ideas presented in this paper have emerged from our curiosity about how technological objects might be leveraged as more than mere evidence in IS research. As constructions of a particular time and place, objects can tell us a great deal about the people, organisations and cultures that produced and used them. Objects reflect the values, beliefs and activities of those people, organisations, and cultures. But many IS scholars following a sociomaterial agenda continue to see objects as no more than background facts that play a supporting role in our research. There is little guidance in the IS literature on how objects might participate more directly and fully in our research and how we as scholars should engage with them. In this paper, we present an object-inspired perspective largely drawn from the material culture literature where we engage with objects as the units of observation. We discuss what this might contribute to IS theory-building and what opportunities it might create for new types of object-centred and -driven theories. We describe a framework for undertaking this object-inspired research. In so doing, we are challenged to think about the ontological commitments of our approach and how this differs from dominant forms of sociomateriality.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.urihttp://www.ecis2017.euen
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationO’Raghallaigh, P., McCarthy, S. and Adam, F. (2017) ‘Sociomateriality: an object-inspired proposal for IS scholars’, In Proceedings of the 25th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Guimarães, Portugal, 05 - 10 June, pp. 1348-1362. ISBN 978-989-20-7655-3 Research Papers. Available online: http://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2017_rp/87en
dc.identifier.endpage1362en
dc.identifier.isbn978-989-20-7655-3
dc.identifier.journaltitleProceedings of the 25th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS)en
dc.identifier.startpage1348en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/6272
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherAIS Electronic Library (AISeL)en
dc.relation.ispartofECIS 2017: Proceedings of the 25th European Conference on Information Systems
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/SFI/SFI Research Centres/12/RC/2272/IE/Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research (INFANT)/en
dc.relation.urihttp://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2017_rp/87
dc.rights© 2017 the authors.This material is brought to you by the ECIS 2017 Proceedings at AIS Electronic Library (AISeL). It has been accepted for inclusion in Research Papers by an authorized administrator of AIS Electronic Library (AISeL). For more information, please contact elibrary@aisnet.org.en
dc.subjectSociomaterialityen
dc.subjectTheoryen
dc.subjectTechnological objects.en
dc.titleSociomateriality: an object inspired proposal for IS scholarsen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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