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Management Information Systems Quarterly | 2013

The ambivalent ontology of digital artifacts

Jannis Kallinikos; Aleksi Aaltonen; Attila Marton

Digital artifacts are embedded in wider and constantly shifting ecosystems such that they become increasingly editable, interactive, reprogrammable, and distributable. This state of flux and constant transfiguration renders the value and utility of these artifacts contingent on shifting webs of functional relations with other artifacts across specific contexts and organizations. By the same token, it apportions control over the development and use of these artifacts over a range of dispersed stakeholders and makes their management a complex technical and social undertaking. These ideas are illustrated with reference to (1) provenance and authenticity of digital documents within the overall context of archiving and social memory and (2) the content dynamics occasioned by the findability of content mediated by Internet search engines. We conclude that the steady change and transfiguration of digital artifacts signal a shift of epochal dimensions that calls for rethinking some of the inherited wisdom in IS research and practice.


Soziale Systeme | 2009

Self-Referential Technology and the Growth of Information: From Techniques to Technology to the Technology of Technology

Attila Marton

Zusammenfassung Dieser Artikel ist ein Versuch, Technologie selbst als ein Gebiet soziologischer Forschung zu erarbeiten. Bis jetzt wurde Technologie zumeist als ein nicht-soziales Artefakt gehandhabt und nur ihr Einfluss auf die moderne Gesellschaft war für Sozialforscher von Interesse. Diese herkömmliche Sichtweise basiert auf der Cartesianischen Subjekt/Objekt Dichotomie in der Form Gesellschaft/Technologie. Gegenwärtige technologische Entwicklungen widerlegen jedoch diesen sozialwissenschaftlichen Zugang. Technologie ist am Sprung zur operationalen Schließung, zum re-entry und somit zur Selbstreferentialität. Eine systemtheoretische Herangehensweise an Technologie als funktionierende Simplifizierung und Containment, könnte sich als viabler Ausgangspunkt herausstellen, um eine abstraktere und akkuratere Konzeptualisierung von Technologie zu erreichen. In den letzten Abschnitten wird die Arbeit von Kallinikos über »information growth« vorgestellt, die Technologie als ein systemisches und paradoxes Konzept zu beobachten versucht. Schlussendlich schlägt der Artikel eine neue Herangehensweise an den Technologiebegriff vor, welcher auf folgenden drei Bausteinen beruht: 1) eine operationale und nicht artefaktbasierte Definition der Technologie, 2) die Ausdifferenzierung der Technologie als historische Entwicklung und 3) das re-entry der Technologie in der Form der Technologie zweiter Ordnung.


The Information Society | 2015

De/Contextualizing Information: The Digitization of Video Editing Practices at the BBC

Attila Marton; José-Carlos Mariátegui

The pervasive diffusion of digital media has introduced profound changes to social practices, challenging established notions of embeddedness and context. Based on our case study on the BBCs Digital Media Initiative, we further explore these changes in the domain of video craft editing for television broadcast brought about by the digitization of the video production process. As craft editing is mediated by digital images, its contextual embeddedness is transformed by context-independent standards of computation and metadata resulting in the erosion of the contextual boundaries of the practice. Given our findings, we argue that in the digital domain, the embeddedness of practices needs to be reconsidered in favor of concepts that account for the peculiarities of digitality and its unprecedented degree of context autonomy.


hawaii international conference on system sciences | 2017

Openness and Legitimacy Building in the Sharing Economy: An Exploratory Case Study about CouchSurfing

Attila Marton; Ioanna D. Constantiou; Georgios Lagoudakos

Sharing economy start-ups are claiming legitimacy by drawing on notions of openness and, at the same time, by adapting to business institutions. We use the case of CouchSurfing to investigate how openness, which has been part of the organization’s raison-d’être, contributed in the legitimacy building efforts and why it was replaced by notions of profitability and revenue generation. Thus, we contribute the concepts of legitimacy and legitimacy building to the academic discourse of openness.


First Monday | 2010

A theory of digital objects

Jannis Kallinikos; Aleksi Aaltonen; Attila Marton


Theory and Society | 2013

Governing social practice

Jannis Kallinikos; Hans Hasselbladh; Attila Marton


european conference on information systems | 2013

Reframing Open Big Data

Attila Marton; Michel Avital; Tina Blegind Jensen


international conference on information systems | 2013

Purposive Selection and the Quality of Qualitative IS Research

Attila Marton


Mis Quarterly Executive | 2017

Four Models of Sharing Economy Platforms

Ioanna D. Constantiou; Attila Marton; Virpi Kristiina Tuunainen


Artnodes: revista de arte, ciencia y tecnología | 2011

The Transfigurability of Digital Objects

Attila Marton

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Jannis Kallinikos

London School of Economics and Political Science

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Michel Avital

Copenhagen Business School

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José-Carlos Mariátegui

London School of Economics and Political Science

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