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SYMPOSIUM: The Fulfilled or Failed Potential of Social Media, Reflections on New opportunities for Agency

  • 1.  SYMPOSIUM: The Fulfilled or Failed Potential of Social Media, Reflections on New opportunities for Agency

    Posted 07-21-2015 14:14
    If you're interested in social media and its impact on forms of agency, we invite you to join us for an exciting session on these issues on Monday afternoon at the Academy meeting in Vancouver.


    The Fulfilled or Failed Potential of New Social Media: Reflections on New opportunities for Agency


    Monday, Aug 10 2015 3:00PM - 4:30PM at Vancouver Convention Centre in Room 001


    Organizers: Marcos Barros

                      Madeline Toubiana

    Panelists:   Charlene Zietsma,

                      Trish Ruebottom,

                      David Courpasson,

                      Mikołaj Jan Piskorski

                      Juliane Reinecke


    How actors exert agency to change and resist the social structures, institutions and organizations they are embedded within has been a central theme in organizational studies (Seo & Creed, 2002). While often investigated by distinct theoretical domains, studies of resistance, social movements, and institutional change/work have in common their desire to document how actors (try to) change organizational and societal structures (Collinson, 1994; King & Pearce, 2010; Knights & McCabe, 2000; Lawrence, Suddaby, & Leca, 2009). Recently social media has been touted as changing the dynamics of interaction within society and thus the potential and forms of agency. Yet the results from early studies on social media leave us unsure of whether social media has fulfilled or failed its potential to transform the possibilities of embedded agency. The purpose of this symposium is to bring together scholars from distinct theoretical backgrounds who are conducting work on social media and create a forum for discussion on the ways in which it influences the study of agency.     If you are working with or interested in social media and diverse forms of agency do not miss this session!



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    Madeline Toubiana PhD
    Assistant Professor
    Strategic Management and Organization
    Alberta School of Business
    University of Alberta