On making meanings: Curators, social assembly, and mashups
指出制度理论关注意义的创造、分配和应用，但现有研究多集中于意义的传播与应用，而忽略了意义制造这一环节。作者提出通过策展人、社会组装和社会混搭三个概念来探索意义制造的过程。
The central argument of this article is that institutional theory is fundamentally concerned with the creation, distribution, and application of meaning. The field today only recognizes two of these three collective practices: what we term meaning-evangelizing, concern for how actors and institutions distribute and contest meanings; and meaning-applying, how and to what end actors apply existing, established categorical systems and logics to token objects, actors, organizations, and so on. This essay focuses on the third, less studied leg: meaning-making, the construction of the meanings that guide social actors. This essay offers a theoretical path for exploring meaning-making by discussing its actors, actions, and outcomes: the institutional actors who create meanings (such as curators), how they do it ( social assembly), and what is made ( social mashups, i.e., candidate meanings).