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Materiality (digital text), refers to the physical medium used to store and convey the text; Materiality (law), a legal term that has different meanings depending on context; Materiality (social sciences and humanities), the notion that the physical properties of a cultural artifact have consequences for how the object is used
In the social sciences, materiality is the notion that the physical properties of a cultural artifact have consequences for how the object is used. [1] Some scholars expand this definition to encompass a broader range of actions, such as the process of making art, and the power of organizations and institutions to orient activity around themselves. [1]
Materiality, if quantified in any of the above ways, is a function of company size as measured by assets and revenues: the larger the company, the larger materiality limit. Using different means to quantify materiality causes inconsistency in materiality thresholds.
Materiality is particularly important in the context of securities law, because under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, a company can be held civilly or criminally liable for false, misleading, or omitted statements of fact in proxy statements and other documents, if the fact in question is found by the court to have been material pursuant ...
Materiality in architecture is a concept or the applied use of various materials or substances in the medium of building. [1] This concept was previously regarded as a secondary consideration in architecture but recently emerged as an important element due to advances in digital fabrication and digital science.
Its materiality can, in some ways, be linked to the concept of determinism, as espoused by Enlightenment thinkers. [3] Despite the large number of philosophical schools and their nuances, [4] [5] [6] all philosophies are said to fall into one of two primary categories, defined in contrast to each other: idealism and materialism.
Leonardi [16] explains the reason for sociomateriality's existence: '(a) that all materiality (as defined in the prior section) is social in that it was created through social processes and it is interpreted and used in social contexts and (b) that all social action is possible because of some materiality' (p. 32). The emergence of the term ...
The materiality turn in organization studies is the theoretical movement emphasizing objects, instruments and embodiments involved in organizations and organizing (theoretical debate [1]) and the ontologies underpinnings theories about organizations and organizing, what deeply 'matters' in the study of organizations and organizing (e.g. structures, agency, intentionality, process, movements ...