The socio-materiality professional development workshop, run by Anne-Laure Fayard, Samer Faraj and Wanda Orlikowski stimulated thinking about the relationships between material, embodied, practices and social relationships and interactions. Theorizing sociomaterial practice is important, as phenomena observed in research are difficult to understand in terms of a social realm that is separate from / outside of the material world.
Questions that I brought to the PDW are:
• How to build socio-material constructivist (as opposed to social constructivist) explanations of organizational practices?
• How to use interviews as well as observation to study digitally-enabled work through the range of situated material practices?
• How our understanding of the role of management might be reframed in/through socio-material studies?
