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Sub-theme 06: [SWG] Facts, Fiction, and the Fabric of Organizing: Exploring the Performative and Constitutive Power of (Non-)Truth Communication

Convenors:
Dennis Schoeneborn, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
ds.msc@cbs.dk
Ellen Nathues, University of Twente, The Netherlands
e.nathues@utwente.nl
Salla-Maaria Laaksonen, University of Helsinki, Finland
salla.laaksonen@helsinki.fi
Session Time Corridor 1: Thursday, July 09, 09:00 to 12:00, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Intro, sessions 1 and 2
Break 1: 10:30 to 11:00
Chair: Dennis Schoeneborn & Salla-Maaria Laaksonen
Denis Borodin and Saulo Dubard Barbosa
Building media in authoritarian country - organizational identity formation under state pressure
Sara Russo and Giulia Biselli
Organizing through non-truth: cognitive warfare and the constitutive infrastructures of reality
Silvia Pilonato, Emilio Passetti and Antonio Parbonetti
Between legitimacy and illegitimacy and the unfolding of organisational façades: a case of mafia networks
Bennet Schwoon and Dennis Schoeneborn
Epistemic polarization as a form of organizing: The role of alternative media actors’ communication in redistributing knowledge authorities
Lena Kostuj
The construction and negotiation of (non-)truth claims in far-right conspiratorial communities on Telegram
Tim Risse and Elisabeth Busch
Negotiating free speech: The organizing work of moderation in conspiracy spaces
Session structure:
* Sub-theme intro & welcome (09.00 - 09.30)
* Session 1 (09.30 - 10.30): Authoritarian contexts (Papers 1/2/3 above)
* Session 2 (11.00 - 12.00): Knowledge authorities & conspiracy theories (Papers 4/5/6 above)
Session Time Corridor 2: Thursday, July 09, 16:00 to 20:00, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Sessions 3, 4, and Sub-Theme Social
Break 1: 17:00 to 17:30
Break 2: 18:30 to 19:00
Chair: Ellen Nathues & Salla-Maaria Laaksonen
Leonie Sauer, Milena Leybold and Laura Thäter
Authoring worker voice in the digital – the case of the YouTubers Union
Meike Joseph
Negotiating the truth - Practicing boundary work in digital fan communities
Mathieu Chaput, Sarah Naciri and Nicolas Bencherki
Co-constituting the housing crisis: vernacular crisis communication in online help groups
Guy Huber, David Knights and David Knights
Reframing leadership as a problem in responsibly dealing with the epistemological crises: Organizing an ethics of truth and power
Alex Wright and François Cooren
The fabric of organizing: Toward a communication perspective on judging and judgment
Lionel Loiseau
Chasing imagined futures: performative promises and legitimacy dynamics in coaching
Session structure:
* Session 3 (16.00 - 17.00): Online communities and voice (Papers 1/2/3 above)
* Session 4 (17.30 - 18.30): Power, leadership & judgment (Papers 4/5/6 above)
* (Optional) Sub-Theme Social (19.00 - 20.00)
Session Time Corridor 3: Friday, July 10, 09:15 to 11:45, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Session 5 and 6
Break 1: 10:15 to 10:45
Chair: Dennis Schoeneborn & Ellen Nathues
Marie Wengler
Performance Management: a battlefield in disguise
Alex Preda and Elena Raviola
Turning images into facts in times of epistemic chaos: New experts, new justice?
Bertrand Fauré and Alphonse NIAMIEN
Telling Organizational Truth Otherwise: A CCO Perspective on Abduction and Digital Communication
Alina Arti, Alexander Buhmann and Vilma Luoma-aho
Organizing beyond truth: organizational realities shaped by non-truth
Marie Joachim and Itziar Castelló Molina
The body as an object of truth in organizational responses to disinformation
Alwin Baumhöver, Leonhard Dobusch and Luana Niedermoser
Intransparency as a Strategy - the Rise and Fall of SIGNA
Session structure:
* Session 5 (09.15 - 10.15): Expertise & legitimacy of truth claims (Papers 1/2/3 above)
* Session 6 (10.45 - 11.45): Truths and not-truths shaping (formal) organization (Papers 4/5/6 above)
Session Time Corridor 4: Friday, July 10, 16:00 to 18:30, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Sessions 7 and 8
Break 1: 17:00 to 17:30
Chair: Salla-Maaria Laaksonen & Dennis Schoeneborn
Alice Dos Santos Acioli e Silva, Luiz Giovanelli and Caio Cesar Coelho
Structural Greenwashing as (Non-)Truth Communication: How ESG Reporting and Reparations Governance Perform Accountability After Socio-Environmental Disasters in Brazil
Visa Penttilä and Meri Frig
Collective organizing and actorhood for monitoring corporate responsibility
Monica Porzionato, Sine Nørholm Just and Karen Lee Ashcraft
Beyond ‘post-truth feelings’: Communicative rehearsals for renewed climate action
Michelle van Weeren, Christophe Revelli and Christel Dumas
From Rio to Brussels: The performative success and ethical dilution of socially responsible investment
John McClellan and Erin McClellan
A Communicative Approach to Care: Relationally-Responsible Organizing for a Green Transformation
Malo Artur
New architects for (non-)truth? Leakers, at the boundaries of information, communication, and organizations
Session structure:
* Session 7 (16.00 - 17.00): CSR, climate action & greenwashing (Papers 1/2/3 above)
* Session 8 (17.30 - 18.30): Communicative views on responsibility & care (Papers 4/5/6 above)
Session Time Corridor 5: Saturday, July 11, 09:00 to 12:00, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Sessions 9, 10, and Wrap-up
Break 1: 10:00 to 10:30
Chair: Ellen Nathues & Salla-Maaria Laaksonen
Richard J. Badham, Robin Kramar and Adam Attar
Exploring leadfluencer metaphors: facts, fiction, and the performative constitution of leadership realities
Frank Meier, Lars Christensen and Brigid Carroll
Implicative accountability: The communicative constitution of responsible leadership
Hugh Mason and David Carter
Fictions, Fantasies, and Failure: How (Non-)Truths Constitute New Venture Pivoting
Lana Bartusch
Sitting-at-the-table as refrain: Organizational rhythms of an informal art space
Christine Abdalla Mikhaeil and Marie Joachim
“One too many” red pills to swallow: deescalating radicalized online social identity
Mark van Vuuren, Jan-Jorrit Hasselaar and Leonie Suzanne Willemijn Koops
Hopeful Sensemaking: Deciding to hope in times of radical uncertainty
Session structure:
* Session 9 (09.00 - 10.00): Leadership & new ventures (Papers 1/2/3 above)
* Session 10 (10.30 - 11.30): Making sense of radical alternatives (Papers 4/5/6 above)
* Sub-theme wrap-up & farewell (11.30 - 12.00)