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Political Satire and the Counter-framing of Public Sector IT Project Escalation

(Pan & Pan, 2011). We consider the role of satire as a lens to challenge dominant frames and better understand stakeholders during the shift towards de-escalation based on analyzing political cartoons

Politics and AIS: Where Do We Draw the Line?

governance documents have included no guidance on matters related to national or international politics. However, recent events have challenged AIS to reconsider its responsibility as a political or moral ... inadvertently or intentionally entered the political fray and debated the benefits and drawbacks of taking on a more formal political position. This paper presents the positions that each panelist raised and

Deliberation in Mobile Messaging Application: A Case in Hong Kong

Considering the increasing penetration of Internet and mobile technologies, we can foresee that more online debates and political discussions, such as online deliberations, will occur in the future ... Philosophy , 10 ( 2 ), 129 - 152 . Albrecht , S. ( 2006 ). Whose voice is heard in online deliberation? A study of participation and representation in political debates on the Internet . Information

Political Social Media Sites as Public Sphere: A Case Study of the Norwegian Labour Party

Political interest and voter turnout is in steady decline. In an attempt to renew interest for political matters, political parties and governments have attempted to create new digital meeting places ... at; https; //aisel; aisnet; org/cais Marius Rohde Johannessen Department of Information Systems, University of Agder Asbjørn Følstad Sintef Research Institute Political interest and voter turnout

"Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Religion", Julian Young, New York 2006 : [recenzja]

Nazi system. The main thesis of Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Religion is also not trivial. Young decidedly rejects the conventional opinion of the individualistic character of anthropology of the author of ... Thus Spoke Zarathustra. However, is it possible to interpret the following threads, so typical of Nietzsche’s philosophy, in a different manner than the individualistic one: the criticism of narrow

Exploring the Democratic Potential of Online Social Networking: The Scope and Limitations of e-Participation

The availability and promise of social networking technologies with their perceived open philosophy has increasingly inspired citizens around the world to participate in political activity on the Web ... cuts, to organizing revolutionary social movements, such as those in the Middle East and North Africa. Although online spaces create remarkable opportunities for various forms of political action, there

Let’s Start Fooling Ourselves: Strategies for Manoeuvring Within the Micro-Political Influences Surrounding Our Research Practices

The micro-political and pragmatic ideas introduced by Nik Hassan can change our view about the nature of the field’s crisis from problems with the production of relevant knowledge through theory and ... thinking through the nature of and responses to our research crisis, and provides the possibilities for alternative research practices to manoeuvre within and through varying micro-political influences. A

Giving Voice to the Voiceless: The Use of Digital Technologies by Marginalized Groups

law of group polarization . Journal of Political Philosophy , 10 ( 2 ), 175 - 195 . The New Yorker. ( 2017 ). The story behind the fire that killed forty teen-age grils in a Guatemalan Children's home ... marginalized people—that is, individuals who are excluded from economic, social, and political life (Walsh, 2006) —around the world a means through which they can make their voices heard. Even though

Funny Business: Public Opinion of Outsourcing and Offshoring as Reflected in U.S. and Indian Political Cartoons

In this paper, we studied the public’s opinion of outsourcing and offshoring as reflected in political cartoons. Researchers in many fields have used political cartoons to track public opinion, yet ... Management Review , Vol. 37 , 3 , pp. 26 - 32 . Eco , U. ( 1984 ). Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language , Indiana University Press, Bloomington. Edwards , J. ( 1997 ). Political Cartoons in the 1988

The World IT Project: History, Trials, Tribulations, Lessons, and Recommendations

research glaringly lacks is a global view that tries to understand the major IS issues in the world in the context of unique cultural, economic, political, religious, and societal environments. The World IT ... requires survey data collection from different countries, representing different cultures, levels of economic growth, societal and religious beliefs, and political systems. More than forty countries from all

Conceptualizing Emerging Technology in Local Contexts: An Ethnographic Study of RFID in an Emirate’s Farming Industry

, RFID in particular. Findings suggest that numerous local factors pertaining to the researched emirate’s unique environmental, project, cultural, and societal/political contexts shape and/or are reshaped ... comprise multiple nations in one continent (Leydesdorff, Cooke, & Olazaran, 2002) . By contrast, local suggests a significantly smaller scale of geographic or political area that, as Figure 1 shows

Organizing Data Governance: Findings from the Telecommunications Industry and Consequences for Large Service Providers

philosophy; Deutsche Telekom, on the other hand, favors a rather constitutive, top-down approach. The article also proposes a research agenda for further studies in the field of Data Governance organization. ... Expanded Sourcebook, 2nd edition , Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. Mohr , L.B. ( 1973 ) ―The Concept of Organizational Goal‖ , The American Political Science Review (67)2 , pp. 470 - 481 . Newman , D. and D. Logan

Applying Seven Images of Science in Exploring whether Information Systems Is a Science

organizations: machine, organisms, brains, cultures, political systems, psychic prisons, flux and transformation, and instruments of domination. The proposed images of science could be improved and developed ... further in the future. This short response cannot review the philosophy and history of science, nor can it even do justice to the many definitions of science and knowledge. It can present the results of

The Potential for Citizen Science in Information Systems Research

‐based peer production and virtue . Journal of Political Philosophy , 14 ( 4 ), 394 - 419 . Bjögvinsson , E. , Ehn , P. , & Hillgren , P. A. ( 2012a ). Design things and design thinking: Contemporary ... any more than scientists are political capital. Citizens and scientists are people grounded to their context who build understanding and foster growth in areas that matter to them. There are times when

The Critical Role of Historiography in Writing IS History

incomplete set of these variations include: political history, intellectual history, cultural history, and social history. Each of these viewpoints brings with it a different set of assumptions about what is ... in the social history of IS, then gathering data about IS academics’ networks, interactions, ethnographic accounts is relevant. If a political history is the primary goal, then raw materials about the

Inclusive Design in IS: Why Diversity Matters

After decades of research and ambitious political programs, we still observe imbalances in the treatment of people on the basis of gender, age, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion ... , for example, range from among the most conservative to most liberal along the political spectrum. Born deaf people may have quite different needs and interests than those who lose hearing later in life

Is Information Systems a Science? Rejoinder to Five Commentaries

methodological extremists in their sights for mistaking a seed of truth as the only truth and yet their entire research philosophy relies on the presence of one approach, one truth. Dennis et al. (2018) present ... organizational environment. Moreover, design must address the organizational, social, and political issues that impinge on the information systems. Design constitutes a much wider aspect than just good human

Champions of IS Innovations

could not determine the research philosophy for one paper. None of the reviewed papers approached champion research from the critical or critical-realist perspectives. To interpret these results and ... discussing its philosophical underpinnings and then following guidelines for rigor in the chosen philosophy. We could encourage researchers to do so if reviewers sought such explicitness and reflectiveness

Business Architectures in the Public Sector: Experiences from Practice

-government research has a technology focus, our goal is to investigate whether business architectures can help governments to recreate agencies to make them robust in dealing with political preferences, and ... political visions, public values, and actors involved and the division of responsibilities complicate the creation of a business architecture. The manuscript was received 3/7/2010 and was with the authors 9

Grand Challenge Pursuits: Insights from a Multi-year DSR Project Stream

philosophers have examined knowledge for centuries. Thus, turning to philosophy to identify kernel theory to design a knowledge-management system seemed logical. Researchers found a philosophical basis in ... research teams used a different philosophy to push the concept of such a DSS to a new level of complexity. Additionally, the book provided a common language for Churchman’s (1971 ) former students and IS