---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Call for papers: Global and Organizational Discourse about Inform ation Technology Barcelona December 12-14 2002 Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 16:45:01 +0100 From: "Ifip.Discourse" Ifip.Discourse@LSE.AC.UK To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE
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Call for Papers IFIP WG 8.2 Working Conference Global and Organizational Discourse about Information Technology Barcelona, December 12-14, 2002 (Before ICIS 2002)
General Chair: David Avison Organizing Chair: Rafael Andreu Program Co-Chairs: Eleanor Wynn, Michael D. Myers and Edgar A. Whitley Conference website: http://is.lse.ac.uk/discourse Conference contact e-mail: ifip.discourse@lse.ac.uk
Important dates:
Deadline for submissions: March 1st, 2002 Notification of acceptance: June 1st, 2002 Final papers due: July 15th, 2002
Over the past 20 years, the field of information systems has grown dramatically in theoretical diversity and global reach. This growth is reflected in the language and rhetorical arguments that policy-makers and organizational stakeholders use when they talk about their IT plans. As IT penetrates further into organizational and global life, it becomes ever more important to articulate assumptions embedded in the discourse about it. This will help to clarify the complex and yet conceptually improvised or pasted-up worldview that becomes embodied in systems. The assumptions point to particular domains of discourse. The discourse sets up conventions and boundaries. It thus shapes what can or cannot legitimately be talked about, researched, addressed, or solved within the scope of IT. There are many ways of analyzing and making visible the meaning and consequences of organizational discourse: for example, hermeneutics, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, speech-act analysis, language-action perspective, cognitive mapping, and semiotics, amongst others.
We solicit research papers in two key areas:
1. Global and regional discourses about technology. How is policy framed, how are budgets justified, what are perceived as the key needs and preconditions for technology at the national or regional level? This includes developing countries, global corporations and national policy arguments.
2. Discourses within organizations already sophisticated in technology use. What are the issues, assumptions and goals implied in IT globalization, scope expansion and enterprise deployment, or innovations such as e-commerce and knowledge management?
We particularly welcome papers that directly analyze specific language from actual case environments or texts. This analysis can come from any of the methods described above, or others. The idea is to paint a clear picture of language-in-action and how it works to influence the direction of IT in the world and in organizations.
Possible topics include: * Analyses of the fit of system development models to organizational rhetoric * Studies of texts that disclose a view of technology * Theoretical approaches to the study of organizational discourse * Distinctions implied in explanations of work and business models * The use of metaphors in computing, planning and information systems development * Discourse analysis of participants in IS projects * How the language of technology is used to set social agendas * Studies of communication genres * Ethnographic semantics of IT planning, development and evaluation * Schemes of representation * Critical analyses of discourses * Communicative and strategic action studies * Philosophical issues of language and representation
Submitted papers must not have been previously presented or published and must not be under consideration for presentation or publication elsewhere.
Details of the programme committee can be found on the conference website.
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