The Organization Research Group

ORG is a reading group at UNC Chapel Hill that meets Fridays at 10:00am ET in 214 Manning Hall or via Zoom.

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Next meeting

Friday, July 10, 2026

Kirkwood, J. W. (2022). Introduction: Signifying Nothings. In Endless Intervals: Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics around 1900. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Recent meetings

Friday, July 3, 2026

Seaver, N. (2026). Keep Computer Awake: Mouse Jigglers and the Technicity of Attention. Media Theory, 10(1), 205–230. doi:10.70064/mt.v10i1.1373

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Journals

Friday, June 26, 2026

Poirier, L. (2026). Re-Formalizing owl:sameas: Iterating Meaning-Making in a Computer Ontology Language. Social Studies of Science, 56, 353–377. doi:10.1177/03063127261424496

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Friday, June 19, 2026

Ribes, D. (2026). How to Study an Ecology of Research Infrastructures. In Machineries of Similarity and Difference. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. doi:10.7551/mitpress/15622.003.0006

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Publishers

Friday, June 12, 2026

Ribes, D. (2026). How to Study an Ecology of Research Infrastructures. In Machineries of Similarity and Difference. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. doi:10.7551/mitpress/15622.003.0006

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Publishers

Friday, June 5, 2026

Leo XIV. (2026). Technology and Dominance. The Grandeur of Humanity in Light of the Promises of AI. In Magnifica Humanitas. Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana. Retrieved from https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html#CHAPTER_THREE.

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