From People to Objects: The digital transformation of fields

Digital technologies are reconfiguring organizations and their environments. Activities are increasingly distributed across fields and coordinated by data, algorithms and machines. This paper investigates data objects (objects made of data structured and aggregated under a specific template) and the...

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Vydáno v:Organization studies Ročník 43; číslo 7; s. 1091 - 1114
Hlavní autor: Alaimo, Cristina
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: London, England SAGE Publications 01.07.2022
Sage Publications Ltd
Témata:
Advertisements
Advertising
Aggregate data
Algorithms
Automation
Bidding
Collective action
Data
Digital transformation
Machinery
Mass media effects
Organization studies
Rules
Transformation
institutions
algorithms
automation
data
data objects
institutional theory
organizational fields
technology
platforms
ISSN:0170-8406, 1741-3044
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Shrnutí:Digital technologies are reconfiguring organizations and their environments. Activities are increasingly distributed across fields and coordinated by data, algorithms and machines. This paper investigates data objects (objects made of data structured and aggregated under a specific template) and their role in structuring fields and field practices. It studies programmatic advertising, an automated bidding process with hundreds of participants, whereby media spaces are auctioned in real time as individual users browse online content. To work on such a large scale, programmatic advertising must standardize existing field knowledge into data and coordinate collective action through objects, algorithms and technologies. This study shows how data, data objects and their infrastructures are involved in transforming the links between institutions and practice. The makeup and functioning of data and data objects reorient existing cognitive, normative and regulative structures, constrain the rule of engagement of actors and enable field-level autonomous interaction. The datafication of knowledge and automation of practices exposed in this paper call for a thorough rethinking of existing approaches to the concepts of organizations and fields.
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ISSN:0170-8406
1741-3044
DOI:10.1177/01708406211030654