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- Bednar, Peter, et al.
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Crisis! What Crisis?
- 2010
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Ingår i: Information Systems: People, Organizations, Institutions and Technologies. - Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag HD. - 9783790821475 ; , s. 353-360
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Abstract There is a crisis discussed in the discipline of Information Systems. Those who perceive such a crisis to exist are by no means agreed, as to its nature and origins. Our inquiry shows that there are a three distinct “crises” being debated. The first of these relates to the Substance and boundaries of the discipline itself and if it is even a discipline at all. Another “crisis” relates to higher education and a fall in demand for IS courses from new students. Commentators perceive this to threaten the existence of IS departments in Universities, and to have potentially serious consequences for both research strategies and career paths of academics. Thirdly, there is perception of a crisis in the wider world, characterised by fewer vacancies in IS-relevant occupations whilst, at the same time, employers complain of a shortage of suitably skilled applicants for the vacancies available. This paper examines evidence for the three “crises,” real or imagined, suggested above, in the Information Systems field.
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- Bednar, Peter, et al.
(författare)
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Digital forensic investigations: a new frontier for Informing Systems
- 2010
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Ingår i: Information Systems: People, Organizations, Institutions and Technologies. - Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag HD. - 9783790821475 ; , s. 361-371
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Digital forensic investigators experience a need for support in their everyday struggle to overcome boundary problems associated with cyber crime inves-tigations. Traditional methods are socio-culturally and physically localised and dependent on strict and historically prescriptive political management. The new internet-worked cyber-world creates unprecedented difficulties for digital forensic investigations. This is directly linked with the inherently complex uncertainties and ambiguities related to a constant need for framing and re-framing of problem spaces under investigation. As such, in this paper we propose the recruitment of the discipline of Informing Systems in the context of digital discovery. Early findings of such an exercise indicate that informing systems approaches can assist the investigation process by offering means for structuring uncertainty. As it is accepted that uncertainty is an inherent element in a crime scene, not least in a cyber crime scene, we consider the contribution of Informing Systems vital for the effectiveness of digital forensic investigation practices.
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- Bednar, Peter, et al.
(författare)
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Loitering with intent: dealing with human-intensive systems
- 2008
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Ingår i: Interdisciplinary Aspects of Information Systems Studies. - 9783790820096 ; , s. 33-40
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper discusses the professional roles of information systems analysts and users, focusing on a perspective of human intensive, rather than software intensive information systems. The concept of ‘meaningful use’ is discussed in re-lation to measures of success/failure in IS development. The authors consider how a number of different aspects of reductionism may distort analyses, so that processes of inquiry cannot support organizational actors to explore and shape their requirements in relation to meaningful use. Approaches which attempt to simplify complex problem spaces, to render them more susceptible to ‘solution’ are problematized. Alternative perspectives which attempt a systematic, holistic complexification, by supporting contextual dependencies to emerge, are advocated as a way forward.
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