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Taking issue with functional approaches to communication, Understanding Organizations through Language offers a viable alternative based on `webs of meaning'. Instead of viewing communication as a thing that can be unproblematically controlled and managed, the authors use semiology as a theoretical bedrock to develop a new metaphor for communication. Understanding Organizations through Language applies this approach to areas of interest, including: metaphor, story-telling, discourse, gender, leadership and electronic communication. Spanning the gap between highly theoretical organization studies texts and highly prescriptive communication texts, the book talks to the reader in a sophisticated yet approachable style. This style is complemented by a range of examples, activities and mini case studies. Also included are chapter summaries and further reading suggestions, making this a useful text for both academics and students. Advanced undergraduates and postgraduates will utilize this book for any course dealing with communication, particularly courses in HRM and organizational behaviour.
Meaning Making in the Electronic Age
Meaning Making in the Electronic Age
In this chapter we do not aim for a comprehensive discussion of the impact of new communication technologies on organizational life. The scope of such a huge subject area is well beyond the boundaries of this book. However, we felt it was necessary to include a chapter on what we call meaning making in the electronic age for several reasons. First, language is clearly central in electronic meaning making; words are deeds since words are all there is. In the case of the internet particularly, worlds and selves are actually made and transformed only by language. In MUDS (Multi-User Domains) for example, reality is clearly socially constructed, and as Turkle (1997) discovered, analysing this ...
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