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Title Actor-network theory and information systems / guest editors, Ole Hanseth, Margunn Aanestad and Marc Berg
Published [Bradford, England] : Emerald Group Pub., 2004

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Description 1 online resource (pages 132-231) : illustrations
Series Information technology & people ; v. 17, no. 2, 2004
Information technology & people (West Linn, Or.) ; v. 17, no. 2
Contents EDITORIAL BOARD; Abstracts and keywords; Guest editors' introduction Actor-network theory and information systems. What's so special?; Tracing the trajectories of issues, and their democratic deficits, on the Web; The nature of the Net: constructing reliability of health information on the Web; Redefining the network: enrollment strategies in the PDA industry; Contested artifact: technology sensemaking, actor networks, and the shaping of the Web browser; Trojan actor-networks and swift translation; Book review
Summary In this editorial introduction Allen Lee's definition of the information systems (IS) field is taken as the starting point: "Research in the information systems field examines more than just the technological system, or just the social system, or even the two systems side by side; in addition, it investigates the phenomena that emerge when the two interact" (Lee, A. "Editorial", MISQ, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2001, p. iii). By emphasizing the last part of this, it is argued that actor-network theory (ANT) can provide IS research with unique and very powerful tools to help us overcome the current poor u
Analysis Andre fag (naturvidenskab og teknik) Andre fag
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Knowledge management.
Information technology.
Business networks.
Electronic data processing.
information technology.
COMPUTERS -- Information Technology.
Electronic data processing
Business networks
Information technology
Knowledge management
Form Electronic book
Author Hanseth, Ole, 1954-
Aanestad, Margunn
Berg, Marc
ISBN 0861769821
9780861769827
1845447417
9781845447410
1280515686
9781280515682
9786610515684
6610515689