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!

1. Yiannis Gabriel, “Against the Tyranny of PowerPoint: Technology-in-Use and Technology Abuse,” Organization Studies 29, no. 2 (Februar 1, 2008): 255-276.
2. Hubert Knoblauch, “The Performance of Knowledge: Pointing and Knowledge in Powerpoint Presentations,” Cultural Sociology 2, no. 1 (März 1, 2008): 75-97.
3. Bernt Schnettler u. Hubert Knoblauch (Hrsg.), Präsentationen. Formen der visuellen Kommunikation von Wissen, Konstanz: UVK 2007
   
4. Bernt Schnettler & Rene Tuma (in preparation), Presentation, Failure, and Risk - A Video - Analysis of PowerPoint Usage
5. David Stark & Verena Paravel, “PowerPoint in Public: Digital Technologies and the New Morphology of Demonstration.” forthcoming 2008 in Theory, Culture & Society.