Reconciling the Social/Human and Technical/Material in IS Research without Trying too Hard
作者： Steven Alter
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摘要: This contribution to the SIGPHIL workshop on reconciling social and technical in IS research proposes a sociotechnical approach that addresses many issues related long-standing duality of social/human versus technical/material. It shows based work system concepts 1) highlights potentially bypasses extremely basic ontological stumbling blocks research, 2) incorporates topics concerns original school, 3) illuminates technical/material, 4) these using terminology are much easier understand than highly sophisticated emerging discourse about sociomateriality. While not starting with assumptions such as constitutive entanglement people, technologies, organizations, this some sociomateriality leads interpretations may be useful it continues unfold. After illustrating discipline's pervasive problem accepting fundamentally different meanings for same concepts, framework, life cycle model, metamodel underlying framework provide scaffolding examining interpreting technical/material real world situations. Steps toward Reconciling Social/Human Material/Technical Questions intersection relation information systems go back early include vigorous debates actor network theory, structuration topics. More recently questions have reemerged form The description AISSIGPHIL at ICIS 2011 quotes Call Papers MIS Quarterly's Special Issue Sociomateriality by saying "since its infancy, has struggled reconcile technological human/social nature systems, investigate them comprehensive coherent way." goes say, "Most assumes conventional between (material) social/human. ... As we intimate tangle their coemergence, co-production, mediation, becomes more urgent 'conceptual bubble' social/material burst (Woolgar 2002)." (Cecez-Kecmanovic et al. 2011) According Papers, is possible bypass through notion sociomateriality, which "implies things, organizations do inherently determinate meanings, boundaries, or properties. Technologies, seen constitutively entangled, implying can separate only analytically." Orlikowski Scott (2008) refers "the inherent
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