Affect and relational agency: How a negative ontology can broaden our understanding of IS research

IF 5.7 2区 管理学 Q1 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE Information and Organization Pub Date : 2024-01-16 DOI:10.1016/j.infoandorg.2023.100500
Edouard Pignot , Mark Thompson
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The sociomaterial lens within IS research holds that agency should not be considered as a property solely of humans, or of technology, but instead arises from an emergent interaction between the two. This, emergent, account of agency deepens our understanding of unfolding IS practice, but its largely cognitive orientation remains naïve towards affectively-sensed motivations that also form part of this interaction. By implication, a sociomaterial perspective lacking an affective dimension offers an incomplete conceptualisation of information systems. In response, an affectively-informed negative ontology encourages IS researchers to extend their focus beyond the visible, to encompass how actors' receptiveness towards material objects (discourses, technologies) is shaped by deep, affectively-derived motivations of which they are not focally aware, but which nonetheless acquire agency in contributing to a sociomaterial outcome. A central argument, and illustrative empirical vignette, demonstrate how the concepts of sociomateriality, affect, and negative ontology combine to offer researchers an enhanced understanding of relational agency. A discussion follows, exploring some initial ontological, epistemological and methodological implications of an affectively-informed negative ontology for IS research.

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情感与关系代理:消极本体论如何拓宽我们对信息系统研究的理解
基础设施服务研究中的社会物质视角认为,机构不应被视为仅仅是人类或技术的属性,而是产生于两者之间的新兴互动。这种对代理的新兴解释加深了我们对不断发展的信息系统实践的理解,但其主要的认知取向对于同样构成这种互动一部分的情感感应动机来说仍然是幼稚的。言下之意,缺乏情感维度的社会物质视角提供了一种不完整的信息系统概念。作为回应,以情感为基础的消极本体论鼓励信息系统研究人员将他们的关注点延伸到可见的事物之外,以涵盖行为者对物质对象(话语、技术)的接受能力是如何被深层的、源自情感的动机所塑造的,这些动机他们并不明确意识到,但却在促成社会物质结果的过程中获得了能动性。本文的中心论点和经验案例说明了社会物质性、情感和消极本体论的概念如何结合在一起,为研究人员提供对关系代理的更深入理解。接下来的讨论将探讨以情感为基础的消极本体论对信息系统研究在本体论、认识论和方法论方面的初步影响。
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期刊介绍: Advances in information and communication technologies are associated with a wide and increasing range of social consequences, which are experienced by individuals, work groups, organizations, interorganizational networks, and societies at large. Information technologies are implicated in all industries and in public as well as private enterprises. Understanding the relationships between information technologies and social organization is an increasingly important and urgent social and scholarly concern in many disciplinary fields.Information and Organization seeks to publish original scholarly articles on the relationships between information technologies and social organization. It seeks a scholarly understanding that is based on empirical research and relevant theory.
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