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What are organizations? Where do they come from? How are they transformed and adapted to new situations? In the digital age and in the global network society, traditional theories of the organization can no longer answer these questions. Based on actor-network theory, this book explains organizations as flexible, open networks in which both human and non-human actors enter into socio-technical assemblies by constantly negotiating and re-negotiating programs of action. Organizations are not macro social structures or autonomous systems operating behind the backs of individuals. Instead, they are scalable actor-networks guided by network norms of connectivity, flow, communication, participation, authenticity, and flexibility.

Die digitale Transformation ist revolutionär: Sie unterbricht die traditionellen Ordnungen der modernen westlichen Gesellschaft und ändert sie auf sozialer, kultureller, wirtschaftlicher und politischer Ebene radikal. Es geht dabei um die Entstehung einer globalen Netzwerkgesellschaft und den Untergang der westlichen Industriegesellschaft samt ihren Weltbildern, ihrer Politik, ihrer Ethik und ihrem humanistischen Menschenbild. Andréa Belliger und David J. Krieger beschreiben und bewerten in kurzen Reflexionen und Gedankenexperimenten die Bedeutung des aktuellen Geschehens sowohl im Hinblick auf die Vergangenheit als auch auf die Zukunft.

The information age has brought about a growing conflict between proponents of a data-driven society on the one side and demands for protection of individual freedom, autonomy, and dignity by means of privacy on the other. The causes of this conflict are rooted in the modern Western opposition of individual and society and a self-understanding of the human as an autonomous rational subject with an inalienable right to informational self-determination. Andréa Belliger and David J. Krieger propose a theory of information as a common good and redefine the individual as an informational self who exists in networks made up of both humans and nonhumans. Privacy is replaced by publicy and issues of data use and data protection are described in terms of governance instead of government.

The information age has brought about a growing conflict between proponents of a data-driven society on the one side and demands for protection of individual freedom, autonomy, and dignity by means of privacy on the other. The causes of this conflict are rooted in the modern Western opposition of individual and society and a self-understanding of the human as an autonomous rational subject with an inalienable right to informational self-determination. Andréa Belliger and David J. Krieger propose a theory of information as a common good and redefine the individual as an informational self who exists in networks made up of both humans and nonhumans. Privacy is replaced by publicy and issues of data use and data protection are described in terms of governance instead of government.

What are organizations? Where do they come from? How are they transformed and adapted to new situations? In the digital age and in the global network society, traditional theories of the organization can no longer answer these questions. Based on actor-network theory, this book explains organizations as flexible, open networks in which both human and non-human actors enter into socio-technical assemblies by constantly negotiating and re-negotiating programs of action. Organizations are not macro social structures or autonomous systems operating behind the backs of individuals. Instead, they are scalable actor-networks guided by network norms of connectivity, flow, communication, participation, authenticity, and flexibility.

What are organizations? Where do they come from? How are they transformed and adapted to new situations? In the digital age and in the global network society, traditional theories of the organization can no longer answer these questions. Based on actor-network theory, this book explains organizations as flexible, open networks in which both human and non-human actors enter into socio-technical assemblies by constantly negotiating and re-negotiating programs of action. Organizations are not macro social structures or autonomous systems operating behind the backs of individuals. Instead, they are scalable actor-networks guided by network norms of connectivity, flow, communication, participation, authenticity, and flexibility.

After postmodern critique has deconstructed, decentered, and displaced order and identity on all levels, we are faced with the Humpty Dumpty question of how to put the pieces back together again. This book brings together the seldom associated discourses of hermeneutics, actor-network theory, and new media in order to formulate a theory of a global network society. Hermeneutics re-opens the question of unity in a fragmented world. Actor-network theory reinterprets the construction of meaning as networking. New media studies show how networking is done. Networks arise, are maintained, and are transformed by communicative actions that are governed by network norms that make up a social operating system. The social operating system offers an alternative to the imperatives of algorithmic logic, functionality, and systemic closure that dominate present day solutions to problems of over-complexity in all areas. The world of meaning constructed by the social operating system is a mixed reality in which filters and layers replace the physical restraints of space and time as parameters of knowing and acting. Society and nature, humans and non-humans come together in a socio-sphere consisting of hybrid, heterogeneous actor-networks. This book proposes reinterpreting hermeneutics as networking and networking as guided by a social operating system whose norms are based on new media. There emerges a theory for a global network society described by different concepts than those typical of Western modernity. Reihe Digitale Gesellschaft - Band 4.

Digitale Gesundheit, ePatient, Health 2.0 - dieses Handbuch bietet Orientierung im weiten und rasant wachsenden Feld der vernetzten Gesundheit. Das Spektrum der Themen reicht von offener Kommunikation, Transparenz und Partizipation über elektronische Gesundheitsdossiers und medizinische Gesundheitsdaten bis hin zu Online-Patienten-Communities, Telemedizin oder eBeratung. Die Beiträge zeigen: Zwar rufen die neuen mobilen und sozialen Technologien und Möglichkeiten im Gesundheitswesen neue Unsicherheiten hervor - sie haben aber auch das Potenzial, alte Probleme mit neuen Lösungen anzugehen, starre Rollen und Hierarchien aufzubrechen sowie die Wirksamkeit und Qualität medizinischer Dienstleistungen zu verbessern. Nicht zuletzt helfen sie dabei, unseren eigenen Umgang mit Gesundheit und Krankheit zu überdenken. Das Buch richtet sich an Patienten und ihre Angehörigen, an Ärzte und Pflegefachleute, an Praktiker/-innen in der Heim- und Krankenhausverwaltung, im Gesundheitsmanagement, in der Pharmaindustrie und in der Medizintechnik. Mit Beiträgen von Lucien Engelen und ePatient Dave deBronkart.

After postmodern critique has deconstructed, decentered, and displaced order and identity on all levels, we are faced with the Humpty Dumpty question of how to put the pieces back together again. This book brings together the seldom associated discourses of hermeneutics, actor-network theory, and new media in order to formulate a theory of a global network society. Hermeneutics re-opens the question of unity in a fragmented world. Actor-network theory reinterprets the construction of meaning as networking. New media studies show how networking is done. Networks arise, are maintained, and are transformed by communicative actions that are governed by network norms that make up a social operating system. The social operating system offers an alternative to the imperatives of algorithmic logic, functionality, and systemic closure that dominate present day solutions to problems of over-complexity in all areas. The world of meaning constructed by the social operating system is a mixed reality in which filters and layers replace the physical restraints of space and time as parameters of knowing and acting. Society and nature, humans and non-humans come together in a socio-sphere consisting of hybrid, heterogeneous actor-networks. This book proposes reinterpreting hermeneutics as networking and networking as guided by a social operating system whose norms are based on new media. There emerges a theory for a global network society described by different concepts than those typical of Western modernity.

Der Band präsentiert 20 klassische Beiträge zur Akteur- Netzwerk-Theorie (kurz ANT), die zum ersten Mal gesammelt und in deutscher Sprache vorliegen. Es handelt sich dabei um Texte von Bruno Latour, John Law, Michel Callon und Madeleine Akrich, die über die letzten zwei Jahrzehnte die internationale Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung maßgeblich beeinflusst haben. Ergänzt um einen einführenden Überblicksartikel der Herausgeber bietet der Bandeine umfassende Orientierung und Grundlage für das Verständnis einer der bedeutendsten neuen Sozialtheorien. Das Buch wendet sich an alle, die sich mit der Bedeutung und den Folgen von Wissenschaft und Technologie für die menschliche Gesellschaft auseinander setzen wollen, insbesondere an Fachleute und Studierende der Soziologie, Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung und der Kommunikationswissenschaft. Es eignet sich auch als Grundlagentext an Hochschulen und Universitäten.