Facilitating Organisational Fluidity with Computational Social Matching

Striving to operate in increasingly dynamic environments, organisations can be seen as fluid and communicative entities where traditional boundaries fade away and collaborations emerge ad hoc. To enhance fluidity, we conceptualise computational social matching as a research area investigating how to digitally support the development of mutually suitable compositions of collaborative ties in organisations. In practice, it refers to the use of data analytics and digital methods to identify features of individuals and the structures of existing social networks and to offer automated recommendations for matching actors. In this chapter, we outline an interdisciplinary theoretical space that provides perspectives on how interaction can be practically enhanced by computational social matching, both on the societal and organisational levels. We derive and describe three strategies for professional social matching: social exploration, network theory-based recommendations, and machine learning-based recommendations.Striving to operate in increasingly dynamic environments, organisations can be seen as fluid and communicative entities where traditional boundaries fade away and collaborations emerge ad hoc. To enhance fluidity, we conceptualise computational social matching as a research area investigating how to digitally support the development of mutually suitable compositions of collaborative ties in organisations. In practice, it refers to the use of data analytics and digital methods to identify features of individuals and the structures of existing social networks and to offer automated recommendations for matching actors. In this chapter, we outline an interdisciplinary theoretical space that provides perspectives on how interaction can be practically enhanced by computational social matching, both on the societal and organisational levels. We derive and describe three strategies for professional social matching: social exploration, network theory-based recommendations, and machine learning-based recommendations.Peer reviewe

(De)compositions: Time and Technology in William Basinski’s The Disintegration Loops (2002)

This paper analyzes William Basinski’s album The Disintegration Loops (2002) and argues that its aesthetic rendition of temporality and finitude is relevant in view of the relation between technology and the human perception of time for three reasons. First, the technological apparatus responsible for its creation mirrors the Derridean concepts of the spacing of time and autoimmunity. Second, the album’s affective appeal illustrates Martin Hägglund’s notion of chronolibido. Third, the music gives rise to a temporal media experience that exists at odds with the media experience afforded by what Mark B.N. Hansen has described as twenty-first-century media. Together, these three dimensions make The Disintegrations Loops an object that allows for an empirical grounding of the discussed theorizations of time and media.Cet article analyse l’album The Disintegration Loops (2002), de William Basinski, et soutient que son interprétation esthétique de la temporalité et de la finitude est pertinente au regard de la relation entre technologie et perception humaine du temps pour trois raisons. Premièrement, l'appareil technologique responsable de sa création reflète les concepts derridéens d'espacement et d'auto-immunité. Deuxièmement, l’appel affectif de l’album illustre la notion de chronolibido de Martin Hägglund. Troisièmement, la musique donne lieu à une expérience médiatique temporelle qui contraste avec l'expérience médiatique offerte par ce que Mark B.N. Hansen appelle les « médias du 21e siècle ». Ensemble, ces trois dimensions font de The Disintegration Loops un objet qui permet de donner une base empirique aux théories discutées du temps et des médias