Colleen E. Mills is Professor of Management at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand and an International Faculty Affiliate at Audencia Business School, France. Her research interests include organisational communication, sensemaking, materiality, and organisational change. She is an executive member and past president of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association and board member of the International Communication Association.François Cooren is a Professor of Communication at the Université de Montréal, Canada. His research interests include organisational communication, language and social interaction, and communication theory. He is a fellow and past president of the International Communication Association, Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association, and former editor-in-chief of Communication Theory (2005-2008).

• Introduction 1. How things make things do things with words, or how to pay attention to what things have to say 2. A communicative approach to sociomateriality: the agentic role of technology at the operational level 3. Modes of design tools: sociomaterial dynamics of a horticultural project 4. The materiality of discourse: relational positioning in a fresh water controversy 5. A spatial grammar of organising: studying the communicative constitution of organisational spaces 6. Making mundane work visible on social media: a CCO investigation of working out loud on Twitter 7. A communication perspective on organisational stakeholder relationships: discursivity, relationality, and materiality

Colleen E. Mills is Professor of Management at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand and an International Faculty Affiliate at Audencia Business School, France. Her research interests include organisational communication, sensemaking, materiality, and organisational change. She is an executive member and past president of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association and board member of the International Communication Association.François Cooren is a Professor of Communication at the Université de Montréal, Canada. His research interests include organisational communication, language and social interaction, and communication theory. He is a fellow and past president of the International Communication Association, Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association, and former editor-in-chief of Communication Theory (2005-2008).

• Introduction 1. How things make things do things with words, or how to pay attention to what things have to say 2. A communicative approach to sociomateriality: the agentic role of technology at the operational level 3. Modes of design tools: sociomaterial dynamics of a horticultural project 4. The materiality of discourse: relational positioning in a fresh water controversy 5. A spatial grammar of organising: studying the communicative constitution of organisational spaces 6. Making mundane work visible on social media: a CCO investigation of working out loud on Twitter 7. A communication perspective on organisational stakeholder relationships: discursivity, relationality, and materiality

Colleen E. Mills is Professor of Management at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand and an International Faculty Affiliate at Audencia Business School, France. Her research interests include organisational communication, sensemaking, materiality, and organisational change. She is an executive member and past president of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association and board member of the International Communication Association.François Cooren is a Professor of Communication at the Université de Montréal, Canada. His research interests include organisational communication, language and social interaction, and communication theory. He is a fellow and past president of the International Communication Association, Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association, and former editor-in-chief of Communication Theory (2005-2008).

• Introduction 1. How things make things do things with words, or how to pay attention to what things have to say 2. A communicative approach to sociomateriality: the agentic role of technology at the operational level 3. Modes of design tools: sociomaterial dynamics of a horticultural project 4. The materiality of discourse: relational positioning in a fresh water controversy 5. A spatial grammar of organising: studying the communicative constitution of organisational spaces 6. Making mundane work visible on social media: a CCO investigation of working out loud on Twitter 7. A communication perspective on organisational stakeholder relationships: discursivity, relationality, and materiality