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In Search of an Integrative Vision for Technology Interdisciplinary Studies in Information Systems
Title
In Search of an Integrative Vision for Technology [electronic resource] : Interdisciplinary Studies in Information Systems / edited by Sytse Strijbos, Andrew Basden.
ISBN
9780387321622
Publication
Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
Physical Description
1 online resource (XX, 310 p).
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Summary
"This book provides a fascinating reading experience for anyone interested in an inquiring relationship between technical progress and the quality of the human condition. It manages to keep a healthier balance between these two complex topics than is found in most publications of the genre, too often they consist either of much technology and little philosophy or the converse.... The book also manages to build accessible bridges over the gulf that tends to separate the philosophical language from the 'real' concerns of technologists." Dr. h.c. Heinz K. Klein is Associate Professor Emeritus at SUNY Binghamton, USA and Leverhulme Chaired Professor, Salford University, UK "The last few years I have become increasingly concerned about the way interdisciplinarity is being used to create more specialized subdisciplines rather than broadening our perspectives. And the ways that interdisciplinarity often marginalizes if it does not leave out completely the humanities. I think this is a major mistake, and one this book clearly aims to address." Carl Mitcham is Professor of Liberal Arts and International Studies at the Colorado School of Mines and faculty affiliate of the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado, USA "This book provides a well-structured and thought-provoking collection of papers about how systems thinking can be employed to provide an integrated perspective on the development and use of technology." Dr. Mike C. Jackson is Professor of Management Systems and Dean of Hull University Business School ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Editors Sytse Strijbos lectures philosophy of technology at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and North West University (Potchefstroom Campus). Andrew Basden is Professor of Human Factors and Philosophy in Information Systems at the University of Salford, U.K.
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Language
English
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April 05, 2019
Series
Contemporary Systems Thinking,
Contents
Introduction: In Search of an Integrative Vision for Technology
Introduction: In Search of an Integrative Vision for Technology
Artifacts and their Development
Aspects of Knowledge Representation
Reflecting on the Use of the Concept of Qualifying Function in System Design
Elicitation of Highly Interdisciplinary Knowledge
An Appreciative Critique and Refinement of Checkland’s Soft Systems Methodology
Socio-Technical Systems
The Systems Character of Modern Technology
Communication Without Bounds?
Norms of Communication and the Rise of the Network Society
Human Practices
Evaluation of Systems in Human Practice
Multimodal Investigation of Technology-Aided Human Practice in Business Operations
An Aspectual Understanding of the Human Use of Information Technology
Directional Perspectives
The Idea of a Systems Ethics
Normative Sources of Systems Thinking: An Inquiry into Religious Ground-Motives of Systems Thinking Paradigms
Towards a ‘Disclosive Systems Thinking’
Critical Reflections
Reflections on the CPTS Model of Interdisciplinarity
Technology and Systems — but What about the Humanities?.
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