Introduction ixChapter 1. Organizations and Digital Technology 11.1. Organizations of the "information society" 21.2. Temporality of devices and organizations 51.2.1. Internal temporality of the devices and temporality of the organization 51.2.2. Permanent prototype deployment 61.3. ICT-enabled mediation 81.3.1. From IT to ICT 111.3.2. Action mediated by technical devices 131.3.3. ICT and quantophrenia 161.4. The transformation of organizations 181.4.1. Digital hybridization of organizations 211.4.2. Digital uses: tensions between private and professional life 221.4.3. Diversion of technologies 23Chapter 2. The Platform Organization 272.1. Networking of the organization 292.1.1. Foundations of the reticular organization 302.1.2. A cybernetic reading of the organization 322.2. Platformization of organizations 332.2.1. Brief history of the platform 342.2.2. The specificity of platform capitalism: culture and use of data 352.2.3. Towards the construction of a "platform organization" 392.3. The platform state 402.3.1. The thinking of the State as a platform 412.3.2. The State, a platform like any other? 442.4. Platform and knowledge 482.4.1. Knowledge organization within the framework of the platform 492.4.2. Knowledge sharing and dissemination 50Chapter 3. Sociotechnical Instrumentation of Collective Intelligence 553.1. Social instrumentation through digital technology 553.1.1. The organization's sociotechnical project 583.2. Collective intelligence, an operating model for organizational transformation 623.2.1. Origin of the concept of collective intelligence 643.2.2. Instrumented collective intelligence 653.3. Collective action and analysis of the potential of collective intelligence 673.3.1. Setting up collective action 673.3.2. Collective action and organizational knowledge 693.3.3. Framework for analyzing the potential of collective intelligence 703.4. From communities to meta-organization 713.4.1. Communities of practice 723.4.2. Virtual communities 743.4.3. Towards virtual communities of practice 753.4.4. The construction of a meta-organization through communities 77Chapter 4. Organization Experience 814.1. Organization through the prism of change 814.2. Sociotechnical device and catalyst for organizational transformations 834.2.1. Co-construction of sociotechnical devices 864.2.2. Towards an instrumental genesis of the organization 894.3. Organizational variations of collective intelligence 914.3.1. Collective intelligence and "glocal" logic 924.4. Intangible common goods 964.4.1. Internal use of non-rival goods 964.4.2. The use of the Web of Data for the provision of digital commons 98Conclusion 101Appendix 109References 113Index 139
Antoine Henry is a lecturer at the University of Lille, France, a researcher at the GERiiCO laboratory and a member of the GDR of the Centre Internet et Societe (CNRS). He completed his PhD in information and communication sciences.