Change as Crisis or Growth? Toward a Trans-disciplinary View of Information Systems as a Field of Study: A Response to Benbasat and Zmud's Call for Returning to the IT Artifact

2003 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 337-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Galliers ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
It Artifact

Reverberations

2012 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Art Music ◽  
Cultural Activity ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Essential Component ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
To Come ◽  
Aesthetic Expression

Noise permeates our highly mediated and globalised cultures. Noise as art, music, cultural or digital practice is a way of intervening so that it can be harnessed for an aesthetic expression not caught within mainstream styles or distribution. This wide-ranging book examines the concept and practices of noise, treating noise not merely as a sonic phenomenon but as an essential component of all communication and information systems. The book opens with ideas of what noise is, and then works through ideas of how noise works in contemporary media, to conclude by showing potentials within noise for a continuing cultural renovation through experimentation. Considered in this way, noise is seen as an essential yet excluded element of contemporary culture that demands a rigorous engagement. Reverberations brings together a range of perspectives, case studies, critiques and suggestions as to how noise can mobilize thought and cultural activity through a heightening of critical creativity.Written by a strong, international line-up of scholars and artists, Reverberations looks to energize this field of study and initiate debates for years to come.

Open-Source Software Issues

2009 ◽  
pp. 33-38
Author(s):  
Sofiane Sahraoui
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Management Science ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Business World ◽  
Research Publications ◽  
Research Track

Two major research publications have recently dedicated special issues to the emerging field of OSS (Research policy, 2003; Management Science, 2006). Likewise, major information systems conferences are starting to list OSS as a research track (IRMA2004, Working IFIP 8.6) translating the heightened importance of this phenomenon in the business world. Undoubtedly, OSS has been admitted as a legitimate field of study in the realm of business academics, but OSS research remains largely trailing the gigantic developments in the open-source industry.

Conceptualizing and Mapping Geocultural Space

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Stadler
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Geographic Information Systems ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
Cultural Narratives ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
The World ◽  
Tools And Methods

This essay seeks to critically conceptualize the term geocultural space and the emerging field of study with which it is associated by exploring the various ways in which such space is currently being mapped by researchers using digital humanities tools and methods. In drawing together intersecting interests in Geographic Information Systems and spatio-cultural narratives and experiences, this work defines an interdisciplinary field of research that is gathering momentum as geolocative technologies that shape and reshape the ways in which we perceive and experience the world become increasingly prevalent in academic life and in the cultural mainstream.

Are We Making a Better World with Icts? Reflections on a Future Agenda for the IS Field

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff Walsham
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
The World ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
Research Contribution

Dramatic changes in context have occurred over the last 25 years for those of us working in the information systems (IS) field, with ICTs becoming pervasive in many areas of human activity and in all countries of the world. It is ironic that the success of ICTs has led to concerns that the distinct research contribution of the IS field could become lost and that the field itself may decline. The literature over the last decade or so has offered different and sometimes opposing suggestions as to how the field should respond to these concerns. In this paper, I discuss these debates and I use the discussion as a basis for putting forward a skeleton future agenda for the IS field as a whole. This agenda emphasises the need for a focus on ethical goals, increased use of critical approaches, welcoming other disciplines with open arms, widening our field of study to many nontraditional settings and rejecting a dominant methodological paradigm.

Exploring Diversity in a Field: An Application of Dooyeweerd’s Philosophy

2018 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-176
Author(s):  
Sina Joneidy ◽  
Andrew Basden
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Information Systems Use

Complexity of a field of study is reflected in the diversity of fragmented discourses within it. How do we understand this diversity and the coherence of the field? This paper explores how Herman Dooyeweerd’s ideas can help us understand the nature of this complexity in the field of information systems use. Dooyeweerd’s suite of aspects is employed practically to separate out discourses by undertaking analysis of excerpts from key papers that define each discourse and indicate what motivated its coming into being. This demonstrates the utility of Dooyeweerd’s ideas in contributing to mainstream thought, and the approach used here might be extended to any field of study.

The Ongoing Quest for the it Artifact: Looking Back, Moving Forward

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saeed Akhlaghpour ◽  
Jing Wu ◽  
Liette Lapointe ◽  
Alain Pinsonneault
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
North American ◽  
Is Research ◽  
The North ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Information Systems Research ◽  
Strong Anchor ◽  
It Artifact ◽  
Looking Back

More than 10 years ago, Orlikowski and Iacono (2001) examined the conceptualization of Information Technology (IT) in Information Systems Research (ISR) articles published in the 1990s. Their main conclusion was that the majority of these articles did not properly conceptualize the IT artifact. They recommended that IS researchers start to theorize about the IT artifact and employ rich conceptualizations of IT. The Orlikowski and Iacono paper provides a strong anchor point from which to analyze the evolution of the IS discipline. In order to obtain an up-to-date image of contemporary IS research, and to assess how the IS field has evolved since the 1990s, we carried out a similar analysis on a more recent and broader set of articles, that is, the full set (N = 644) of papers published between 2006 and 2009 by six top North American (ISR, MISQ, JAIS) and European (JIT, ISJ, EJIS) journals. The statistics in our results reveal no drastic advance in terms of deeper engagement with the IT artifact; more than 39% of the articles in our set are virtually mute about the artifact, and less than 16% employ an ensemble view of IT. Moreover, we note differences among the North American and European journals. Implications of the findings for two perspectives central to the IS research legitimacy debate are discussed.

Cost Containment in Information Systems

1984 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-185
Author(s):  
Michael E. D. Koenig
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Cost Containment
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