Ur­sula Ples­ner

One of my main in­terests is to in­vest­ig­ate the daily work to make a di­git­al­ized or­gan­iz­a­tion func­tion – work, which is of­ten over­looked and un­der­val­ued. This is im­port­ant be­cause it may give us a bet­ter idea of the real costs of di­git­al­iz­ing or­gan­iz­a­tions.

Since di­git­al tech­no­lo­gies are in­ter­con­nec­ted, they al­low for work to be re­dis­trib­uted in new ways, and I am in­ter­ested in how tasks are re­defined, sub­sti­tuted or moved around.

We use a pleth­ora of ad­vanced di­git­al tech­no­lo­gies in our work lives – but we are also de­pend­ent on pen­cils, post-its, simple tele­phones, bod­ies, some­times an­im­als, some­times nature. Ma­ter­i­al­ity and em­bod­i­ment are in­ter­twined with di­git­al­iz­a­tion in fas­cin­at­ing and im­port­ant ways, and at­tend­ing to this gives us a real­ist­ic pic­ture of the con­texts that di­git­al tech­no­lo­gies are to op­er­ate in.