- Yiannis Gabriel, “Against the Tyranny of PowerPoint: Technology-in-Use and Technology Abuse,” Organization Studies 29, no. 2 (Februar 1, 2008): 255-276.
- Hubert Knoblauch, “The Performance of Knowledge: Pointing and Knowledge in Powerpoint Presentations,” Cultural Sociology 2, no. 1 (März 1, 2008): 75-97.
- Bernt Schnettler u. Hubert Knoblauch (Hrsg.), Präsentationen. Formen der visuellen Kommunikation von Wissen, Konstanz: UVK 2007
- Bernt Schnettler & Rene Tuma (in preparation), Presentation, Failure, and Risk - A Video - Analysis of PowerPoint Usage
- David Stark & Verena Paravel, “PowerPoint in Public: Digital Technologies and the New Morphology of Demonstration.” forthcoming 2008 in Theory, Culture & Society.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
PowerPoint and the new publications
Half a year after our book came out (unfortunately in german), I was just struck by a list of other people also writing on this topic, the first one I found was David Stark, who just published a paper. He is analyzing the presentation of the architecture for the ground zero spot in New York and the lectures by Powell in the Word Security Council. Then, just a day later, I found out that other article on the sociology of powerpoint is in the february issue of Organization Studies by Yiannis Garbiel. My supervisor, Hubert Knoblauch just translated one article on the topic of pointing in presentations which is in Cultural Sociology at the same time right now. One more article taken from the Video-Analysis book, by Bernt Schnettler can be found here - hopefully we will finish the translation of our article on technical failure soon!
Monday, February 11, 2008
February Update
I have to apologize for not "blogging" for a long time (have I?), but I was quite busy in the last time.
Most interesting in the last time was the talk Bruno Latour gave at LSE last week, a recording of the talk can be found here.
Latour is a quite impressive speaker, seems to be a funny guy. He spoke about Gabriel Tarde, the old counterplayer of Durkheim, which stands for a sociology of relations/translations. Very keen on presenting a lot of fancy network tools from his students, new datascapes which make new theories necessary (!!! - a good question of a woman in the audience was how many social theories we would have to expect next week).
It is quite interesting that Latour has shifted his focus of interest from the actants to the relations, but in his theory there is not much difference, as every actor is constituted by his relations to other actants in the network.
The enemy, which Latour always adresses is the sociology of the Social, as a own entitiy. In Latours and presumably tardes terms this is the entity to be explained not the explanandum. In fact, I think from my point of view this is a cardboard enemy/dummy. Be honest, "the social" is never a explanaition.
I was interested in what John W. Meyer would say whom I consider to be more on the structural end of the spectrum, but also he would agree that it is the various mediators which make the world culture what it is.
Has Latours position become common sense?
Most interesting in the last time was the talk Bruno Latour gave at LSE last week, a recording of the talk can be found here.
Latour is a quite impressive speaker, seems to be a funny guy. He spoke about Gabriel Tarde, the old counterplayer of Durkheim, which stands for a sociology of relations/translations. Very keen on presenting a lot of fancy network tools from his students, new datascapes which make new theories necessary (!!! - a good question of a woman in the audience was how many social theories we would have to expect next week).
It is quite interesting that Latour has shifted his focus of interest from the actants to the relations, but in his theory there is not much difference, as every actor is constituted by his relations to other actants in the network.
The enemy, which Latour always adresses is the sociology of the Social, as a own entitiy. In Latours and presumably tardes terms this is the entity to be explained not the explanandum. In fact, I think from my point of view this is a cardboard enemy/dummy. Be honest, "the social" is never a explanaition.
I was interested in what John W. Meyer would say whom I consider to be more on the structural end of the spectrum, but also he would agree that it is the various mediators which make the world culture what it is.
Has Latours position become common sense?
Friday, January 04, 2008
New links for the new year
Today I found some interesting recordings in the net:
http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/science/index.html
http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/science/index.html
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