Information systems: a cyborg discipline?

Ramage, Magnus (2004). Information systems: a cyborg discipline? In: Kaplan, Bonnie; Truex, Dwayne P.; Wastell, David; Wood-Harper, A. Trevor and DeGross, Janice I. eds. Information systems research: relevant theory and informed practice. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing (143). Boston, USA: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

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Abstract

This paper argues for a model of information systems in terms of cyborgs – a boundary-crossing mixture of the technical and the social. The argument for this model is substantiated from the personal experience of the author, presented as examples of being a cyborg researcher within a disciplinary context. Lessons for information systems are drawn.

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• 2669
• Item Type
• Book Section
• ISBN
• 1-4020-8094-8, 978-1-4020-8094-4
• Extra Information
• Chapter in question is Chapter 5.
• Keywords
• Cyborgs; interdisciplinarity; reflective practice; sociology of technology
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Computing and Communications
  Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
• Depositing User
• Pat Shah