From Habermas's communicative theory to practice on the internet

Information Systems Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 331-352

  Heng, Michael S H ^a   De Moor, Aldo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accountability; Authoring; Communication; Democratic forum; Habermas; Legitimization; Software tools; The internet; Transparency

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS (IS);

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INTERNET; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 0142149016     PISSN: 13501917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2575.2003.00144.x     Document Type: Review

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