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- Berg, Elisabeth, et al.
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Emphasizing technology: socio-technical implications
- 2005
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Ingår i: Information Technology and People. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 0959-3845 .- 1758-5813. ; 18:4, s. 343-358
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose – This article aims to focus attention on users of information technology (IT), especially mobile telephony. It focuses on what people actually say about mobile technology but also aims to pay attention to what they do not talk about, what is found in the silence, especially with new technology when much can be taken for granted. This latter is, according to Foucault, even more important to understand.Design/methodology/approach – The research draws on empirical research through 11 semi-structured interviews and interviews with five focus groups, comprising between four and eight care assistants in each group. The interviews were with three women and three men between 25-70 years old, five female public sector middle managers and care assistants from five focus groups at social services departments in the north of Sweden. A Foucauldian approach is adopted to interpret the findings and explore how their locations within the circuits of socio-technical networks engender uncertainty with mobile technology. The present spread of IT reinforces a belief that people are integrated into the circuits of socio-technical networks.Findings – The findings suggest, on the one hand, that new technologies like mobile communication can be used to organise our everyday lives, whilst, on the other, there are risks with the new technologies, which can discipline discourses.Originality/value – These issues are discussed from a sociological and informatics perspective.
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- Hedström, Karin, 1967-
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The values of IT in elderly care
- 2007
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Ingår i: Information Technology and People. - : Emerald. - 0959-3845 .- 1758-5813. ; 20:1, s. 72-84
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the values of IT in elderly care.Design/methodology/approach – The paper is an empirical investigation based on four in-depth case studies concerning IT in elderly care. The study draws on Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) with a focus on different actor groups' sense-making regarding the role of IT in elderly care. The empirical analysis is, however, influenced by Grounded Theory (GT). Values are studied through the concept of “value areas”, which is a categorization of various actor groups' anticipated and experienced effects of developing, implementing, and using IT in elderly care.Findings – The paper finds that the values of IT in elderly care can be organized in four related value areas: administration values, integration values, care values, and professional values.Research limitations/implications – Although the findings in this paper are related to elderly care it is believed that the value areas could be valid for all kinds of care work.Practical implications – The paper illustrates how different values are present during the development of IT, and discusses the importance of not only including, but also permitting, various actor groups' interests and values to influence the design process.Originality/value – This paper examines the value of IT in elderly care, as well as presenting an approach for analyzing the values of IT. The paper and its findings should be valid for researchers, as well as for practitioners
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- Ihlström Eriksson, Carina, et al.
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Online newspapers in Scandinavia : A longitudinal study of genre change and interdependency
- 2005
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Ingår i: Information Technology and People. - Bingley : Emerald. - 0959-3845 .- 1758-5813. ; 18:2, s. 172-192
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose - To examine the evolution of the online newspaper genre in Scandinavia. To provide an understanding of the institutional context in which online newspapers initially were produced and modified over time. Design/methodology/approach - A longitudinal study of three different types of newspapers in three Scandinavian countries. The study is based on interviews with newspaper representatives conducted during recurring visits in 1996, 1999 and 2002, and web page analysis of their online newspapers. Findings - The study illustrates how online newspapers have established a number of communicative practices significant for recognizing them as a distinct digital genre, and it outlines a set of institutional factors shaping the ongoing change of these newspapers. In addition, the study demonstrates the emergence of sequential interdependencies between online and printed news. Originality/value - The focus on Scandinavian newspapers in this paper complements studies conducted in other parts of the world regarding online newspaper genre evolution.
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- Lings, Brian, et al.
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On the adaptation of Grounded Theory procedures : insights from the evolution of the 2G method
- 2005
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Ingår i: Information Technology and People. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 0959-3845 .- 1758-5813. ; 18:3, s. 196-211
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose – To articulate the interpretations and adaptations of Grounded Theory made within the 2G method, and the motivations behind them.Design/methodology/approach – Literature review and conceptual approach reflecting on the authors' experience of having developed the 2G method.Findings – Identifies six adaptations of Grounded Theory as being of particular interest. Five relate to method procedures, namely: developing a core category; coding interview data; exposing evolving theories to stakeholders; developing multiple concept frameworks; and inter-linking concepts. The sixth relates to expectations on method users, and the tension between expertise relating to the phenomenon being analysed, and openness in interpreting the data.Research limitations/implications – Shows how Grounded Theory procedures have been adapted and used in IS methods. Specifically, the paper illustrates and makes explicit how a specific method (the 2G method) has evolved.Practical implications – Provides insights for users of Grounded Theory (GT) and developers of IS methods on how GT procedures have been interpreted and adapted in previous and the authors' own research.Originality/value – Provides insights into how Grounded Theory (GT) procedures have been adapted for use in other IS methods, with insights from the authors' own experience of having developed the 2G method. Reflects on the use of GT procedures in a number of case studies related to tool evaluation. Identifies six areas in which specific interpretations or adaptations of GT were considered necessary in the contexts in which the studies were undertaken, and justifies these six departures from standard interpretations of GT procedures.
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- Trauth, E.M., et al.
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Critical empirical research in IS : An example of gender and the IT workforce
- 2006
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Ingår i: Information Technology and People. - : Emerald. - 0959-3845 .- 1758-5813. ; 19:3, s. 272-292
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose - This article aims to add to the growing number of critical empirical studies and to reflect on the process of conducting this type of research, thereby addressing the lack of exemplars for those engaged with critical empirical information systems research. Design/methodology/approach - Applies the critical lens to a multi-year examination of variation in the career narratives of women in the American IT labor force. While an interpretive epistemology was initially chosen for this research project, over time, analysis of interview data took on an increasingly critical orientation. This, in turn, influenced subsequent fieldwork to become critical in nature. Findings - One theoretical contribution is highlighting the role of power dynamics in understanding what sits beneath the surface of observations about these women's experiences in the IT workforce. The second theoretical contribution is helping to shift the focus away from predominantly essentialist theories that dichotomize men and women and toward a recognition of the diversity among women in the IT field. Research limitations/implications - Future research should include additional critical empirical studies of women in the IT field in other countries. Practical implications - This research project can serve as a useful example for other critical IS researchers about to embark on empirical fieldwork. Originality/value - This paper provides a concrete illustration of the way in which empirical research is altered as the epistemological lens shifts from interpretivist to critical.
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