E‐mail, Power and the Constitution of Organisational Reality

Brigham, Martin; Corbett, J. Martin

doi:10.1111/1468-005x.00020

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“…Ciborra and Hanseth (1998) invoked Heidegger alongside actor-network theory in their work on information infrastructures. Knights et al (1997) drew on Foucault in their study of computer networks in the nancial services industry, as did Brigham and Corbett (1997) in their discussion of how electronic mail is implicated in organizational power relations and control at a distance. Even Latour (1996) seemed to hint that something else needs to be added to the network when asked to provide policy or pass judgement.…”

Section: Ontological Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

To Reveal is to Critique: Actor–Network Theory and Critical Information Systems Research

Doolin

Lowe

2002

Journal of Information Technology

144

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It has been suggested that, in order to maintain its relevance, critical research must develop a strong emphasis on empirical work rather than the conceptual emphasis that has typically characterized critical scholarship in management. A critical project of this nature is applicable in the information systems (IS) arena, which has a growing tradition of qualitative inquiry. Despite its relativist ontology, actor-network theory places a strong emphasis on empirical inquiry and this paper argues that actor-network theory, with its careful tracing and recording of heterogeneous networks, is well suited to the generation of detailed and contextual empirical knowledge about IS. The intention in this paper is to explore the relevance of IS research informed by actor-network theory in the pursuit of a broader critical research project as de ned in earlier work.

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Section: Ontological Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

To Reveal is to Critique: Actor–Network Theory and Critical Information Systems Research

Doolin

Lowe

2002

Journal of Information Technology

144

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“…Our study of the VMDS has demonstrated how people, organisation and technology shape each other and hold each other in place: the VMDS illustrates how brigade actors are concerned with framing understanding of reality and imposing these understandings on each other. The VMDS is not simply a medium for access to information 'anywhere and anytime' but is implicated in the constitution of reality and identities -IT does have power, most importantly the power to transform what counts as important (see also Brigham and Corbett, 1997). From this we suggested that the VMDS enframes information and communication by defining it as technological and as such improvisation itself is set within a calculative and instrumental form of thought.…”

Section: Improvisation and Bricolage: Spatial And Temporal (Dis)connementioning

confidence: 98%

Hospitality, Improvisation and Gestell: A Phenomenology of Mobile Information

Brigham

Introna

2006

Journal of Information Technology

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This paper reports on longitudinal research into the implementation and use of the first mobile vehicle mounted data system (VMDS) at a UK fire service. Using insights from Claudio Ciborra's work, the paper develops a phenomenological ontology for conceptualising the co-constitutive relation between organisational practices and information technology mediated practices. The paper sets out how the brigade's mobile data system can be understood in terms hospitality, improvisation and Gestell. It is argued that despite the seemingly innocent and potentially mundane replacement of paper-based practices by electronically mediated mobile information and communication, the VMDS is associated with significant and far-reaching outcomes, both empirical and ontological, within the brigade and for the modernisation of fire service provision across the UK. We suggest that the dynamic of hospitality between guest and host provides a way to think through and beyond the deployment information infrastructures as enframed by a technological mood. The paper concludes with some general implications for a phenomenology of information technology.

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“…According to ANT, the social nature is made of human and non-human actors (Akrich & Latour 1992;Brigham & Corbett, 1997), with both having the capacity to act upon or alter the other (Law, 1984) and each other's courses of action (Durepos & Mills, 2012). Within a MOOC perspective, ANT provides and understanding on how the social and technological dimensions are embedded in each other (Deimann, 2014).…”

Section: Actor Network Theory (Ant)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Bot-teachers in hybrid massive open online courses (MOOCs): A post-humanist experience

Bozkurt

Kilgore

Crosslin

2018

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Networked technologies have created many learning opportunities and led to new learning models such as massive open online courses (MOOCs). However, MOOCs are an evolving learning model that are even today changing according to learners' needs. First generation cMOOCs and second generation xMOOCs are now being followed by third generation hybrid MOOCs. In these evolution cycles, there are many experimental practices such as the use of bot-teachers. This study examines and explains hybrid MOOCs and then focuses on the use of bot-teachers within a post-humanist perspective, using teaching presence from the community of inquiry (CoI) and actor-network theory (ANT) as theoretical lenses. The research findings reveal that, while the use of bot-teachers is promising and beneficial in terms of facilitating and increasing discourse, it is ineffective in providing other components of teaching presence such as direct instruction, and/or design and organisation. However, analysis found that the use of bot-teachers is very helpful in increasing interaction within a learning community and can be used as an assistant during the teaching/learning process. Additionally, learners' positive behaviours indicate that botteachers seem to be working in some respects, indicating that they still hold promise as an educational tool.

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E‐mail, Power and the Constitution of Organisational Reality

Cited by 30 publications

References 1 publication

To Reveal is to Critique: Actor–Network Theory and Critical Information Systems Research

To Reveal is to Critique: Actor–Network Theory and Critical Information Systems Research

Hospitality, Improvisation and Gestell: A Phenomenology of Mobile Information

Bot-teachers in hybrid massive open online courses (MOOCs): A post-humanist experience

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