Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The challenge of materiality: origins, scope, and prospects / Jannis Kallinikos, Paul M. Leonardi, and Bonnie A. Nardi -- Materiality, sociomateriality, and socio-technical systems: what do these terms mean? How are they different? Do we need them? / Paul M. Leonardi -- On sociomateriality / Philip Faulkner and Jochen Runde -- Form, function, and matter: crossing the border of materiality / Jannis Kallinikos -- Ranking devices: the socio-materiality of ratings / Neil Pollock -- Great expectations: the materiality of commensurability in social media / Susan V. Scott and Wanda J. Orlikowski -- Digital materiality and the emergence of an evolutionary science of the artificial / Youngjin Yoo -- Inverse instrumentality: how technologies objectify patients and players / Hamid Ekbia and Bonnie A. Nardi -- Space matters, but how? Physical space, virtual space, and place / Anne-Laure Fayard -- Socio-material practices of design coordination: objects as plastic and partisan / Jennifer Whyte and Chris Harty -- Theorizing information technology as a material artifact in information systems research / Daniel Roby, Benoit Raymond, and Chad Anderson -- The materiality of technology: an affordance perspective / Samer Jaraj and Bijan Azad -- Pencils, Legos, and guns: a study of artifacts used in architecture / Carole Groleau and Christiane Demers -- Materiality: what are the consequences? / Brian T. Pentland and Harminder Singh -- Why matter always matters in (organizational) communication / Francois Cooren, Gail T. Fairhurst, and Romain Huet -- The materiality of rumor / Jenna Burrell -- Matter matters: materiality in philosophy, physics, and technology / Albert Borgmann.