Applying Habermas' validity claims as a standard for critical discourse analysis

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Volumn 143, Issue , 2004, Pages 233-257

  Cukier, Wendy ^a   Bauer, Robert ^b   Middleton, Catherine ^a  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Discourse analysis; Habermas; Ideal speech; Institutional theory; Learning technology

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; SEMANTICS;

CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; HABERMAS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT; INSTITUTIONAL THEORY; LEARNING TECHNOLOGY; ORGANIZATIONAL DECISION MAKING; TECHNOLOGY DECISION MAKINGS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 74549207774     PISSN: 18684238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (98)

1. Abell, P. Rational Choice Theory, Brookfield, VT: Edward Elgar, 1991.
2. Abrahamson, E. "Management Fashions, Academic Fashions and Enduring Truths", The Academy of Management Review 14: 27, 1996, pp. 616-619.
3. Abrahamson, E. "Words into Numbers", Academy of Management Conference Report, Washington, DC, 2001.
4. Alvarez, J. L. "The International Popularization of Entrepreneurial Ideas", in S. R. Clegg and G. Palmer (Eds.), The Politics of Management Knowledge, London: Sage Publications, 1996, pp. 80-98.
5. Attewell, P., and Rule, J. "Computing and Organizations: What We Know and What We Don't Know", Communications of the ACM 27: 2, 1984, pp. 1184-1191.
6. Beedham, C. "Language, Indoctrination and Nuclear Arms", University of East Anglia Papers in Linguistics, 1983, pp. 15-31.
7. Bergman, B. "Wired Revolution", Maclean's 119: 3, 1998, p. 66.
8. Blaug, R. Democracy Real and Ideal: Discourse Ethics and Radical Politics, New York: State University of New York Press, 1999.
9. Bloomfield, B., and Vurdubakis, T. "Re-presenting Technology: IT Consultancy Reports as Textual Reality Constructions", Sociology 28: 2, 1994, pp. 455-477.
10. Boland, R. J. "Information System Use as a Hermeneutic Process", in H-E. Nissen, H. K. Klein, and R. A. Hirschheim (Eds.), Information Systems Research: Contemporary Approaches and Emergent Traditions, Amsterdam: North Holland, 1991, pp. 439-458.
11. Boland, R. J. "Phenomenology: A Preferred Approach to Research in Information Systems", in E. Mumford, R. A. Hirschheim, G. Fitzgerald, and A. T. Wood-Harper (Eds.), Research Methods in Information Systems, Amsterdam: North Holland, 1985, pp. 193-201.
12. Boland, R. J., and Day, W. F. "The Experience of System Design: A Hermeneutic of Organizational Action", Scandinavian Journal of Management 5: 2, 1989, pp. 87-104.
13. Bowring, M. A. "De/Construction Theory: A Look at the Institutional Theory that Positivism Built", Journal of Management Inquiry 9: 3, September 2000, pp. 135-137.
14. Burrell, G., and Morgan, G. Sociological Paradigms and Organizational Analysis: Elements of the Sociology of Corporate Life, London: Heinemann, 1979.
15. Butler, T. "Towards a Hermeneutic Method for Interpretive Research in Information Systems", Journal of Information Technology 13: 4, 1998, pp. 285-300.
16. Calás, M., and Smircich, L. "Voicing Seduction to Silence Leadership", Organization Studies 12: 4, 1991, pp. 567-601.
17. Cannon, B. Rethinking the Normative Content of Critical Theory: Marx, Habermas and Beyond, New York: Palgrave, 2001.
18. Chomsky, N. Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies, Concord, ON: House of Anansi Press, 1989.
19. Clegg, S. R., and Palmer, G. (Eds.). The Politics of Management Knowledge, London: Sage Publications, 1996.
20. Cukier, W., and Bauer, R. "The (Re)Production of Technology Discourse: Technology Enabled Learning in Canada", paper presented at the European Group on Organization Studies (EGOS) Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 2002.
21. Cukier, W., Middleton, C. A., and Bauer, R. "A Critical Analysis of Technology Enabled Learning Discourse in Canada and Its Implications for Policy and Organizational Decision Making", in E. H. Wynn, E. A. Whitley, M. D. Myers and J. I. DeGross (Eds.), Global and Organizational Discourse About Information Technology, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003, pp. 197-221.
22. Czarniawska-Joerges, B., and Joerges, B. "How to Control Things with Words: Organizational Talk and Control", Management Communications Quarterly 2: 2, 1988, pp. 170-193.
23. DiMaggio, P., and Powell, W. "The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields", American Sociological Review 48, 1984, pp. 147-160.
24. Domet, S. "Turn On, Plug In, Hook Up: At Acadia University, the Computer Revolution Is Changing the Way Students Learn and How Professors Teach", Quill and Quire 63: 11, 1997, pp. 1-17.
25. Duquenoy, P., Thimbleby, H., and Torrance, S. "Towards a Synthesis of Discourse Ethics and Internet Regulation", School of Computing Science, Middlesex University, London, 1998 (available online at http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/staffpages/penny/Habermas.htm).
26. Ellul, J. "The Technological System", trans. Joachim Neugroschel, New York: Continuum, 1977.
27. Faerber, M. Gale Directory of Databases, Foster City, CA: Gale Group Publishers, 1999.
28. Fairclough, N. Critical Discourse Analysis: The Critical Study of Language, New York: Longman Group, 1995.
29. Feldman, M. S., and March, J. G. "Information in Organizations as Signal and Symbol", Administrative Science Quarterly 26: 2, 1981, pp. 171-186.
30. Fiske, J. An Introduction to Communication Studies, London: Methuen Press, 1982.
31. Fondas, N. "Feminization Unveiled: Management Qualities in Contemporary Writings", Academy of Management Review 22: 1, 1997, pp. 257-282.
32. Forester, J. "Critical Theory and Organizational Analysis", in G. Morgan (Ed.), Beyond Method Beverley Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1983, pp. 234-346.
33. Forester, J. Planning in the Face of Power, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1989.
34. Foucault, M. Two Lectures: Power/Knowledge, New York: Random House, 1980.
35. Furusten, S. Popular Management Books: How They Are Made and What They Mean for Organizations, London: Routledge, 1999.
36. Gerbner, G. "Comparative Cultural Indicatorsm" in G. Gerbner (Ed.), Mass Media Policies in Changing Cultures, New York: Wiley Publishing, 1977, pp. 199-205.
37. Gopal, A., and Prasad, P. "Understanding GDSS in Symbolic Context: Shifting the Focus from Technology to Interaction", MIS Quarterly 24: 3, 2000, pp. 509-546.
38. Grant, D., Keenoy, T., and Oswick, C. "Organizational Discourse: Key Contributions and Challenges", International Studies of Management and Organization 31: 3, 2001, pp. 5-25.
39. Habermas, J. Communication and the Evolution of Society, trans. T. McCarthy, Boston: Beacon Press, 1979.
40. Habermas, J. The Theory of Communicative Action, Boston: Beacon Press, 1984.
41. Halifax Daily News. Acadia's Wired Students Soar to Top of Class, Study Shows, February 1, 1997, p. 4.
42. Hansen, A., Cottle, S., Negrine, R., and Newbold, C. (Eds.). Mass Communications Research Methods, New York: New York University Press, 1998.
43. Hardt, H. Critical Communication Studies. Communication, History and Theory in America, New York: Routledge, 1992.
44. Hardy, C. "Researching Organizational Discourse", International Studies of Management and Organization 31: 3, 2001, pp. 25-48.
45. Hardy, C., Lawrence, T., and Phillips, N. "Talking Action: Conversations, Narrative, and Action in Interorganizational Collaboration", in D. Grant, T. Keenoy, and C. Oswick (Eds.), Discourse and Organization, London: Sage Publications, 1998, pp. 65-83.
46. Heracleous, L., and Barrett, M. "Organizational Change as Discourse: Communicative Actions and Deep Structures in the Context of Information Technology Implementation", Academy of Management Journal 44, 2001, pp. 755-778.
47. Herman, E. S., and Chomsky, N. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, New York: Pantheon, 1988.
48. Hirsch, P. M. "From Ambushes to Golden Parachutes: Corporate Takeovers and an Instance of Cultural Framing and Institutional Integration", American Journal of Sociology 91, 1986, pp. 800-837.
49. Inglis, F. Media Theory, Oxford: Blackwell, 1990.
50. Jensen, K. B. "Humanist Scholarship as Qualitative Science: Contributions to Mass Communication Research", in K. B. Jensen and N. Jankowski (Eds.), A Handbook of Qualitative Methodologies for Mass Communication Research, London: Routledge, 1991, pp. 17-43.
51. Jensen, K. B., and Jankowski, N. (Eds.). A Handbook of Qualitative Methodologies for Mass Communication Research, London: Routledge, 1991
52. Joy, S. "Mobile Users Plug into University Network: School Plans to Have Program Extended to All 4,000 Students by 2000", Technology in Government 56, 1998, p. 18.
53. Kets de Vries, M. F. R., and Miller, D. "Interpreting Organizational Texts", Journal of Management Studies 24: 3, 1987, pp. 233-247.
54. Klein, H. K., and Hirschheim, R. "The Application of Neohumanist Principles in Information Systems Development", in D. Avison, T. E. Kendall and J. I. DeGross (Eds.), Human, Organizational and Social Dimensions of Information Systems Development, Amsterdam: Elsevier. 1993, pp. 264-280.
55. Klein, H. K., and Hirschheim, R. "Rationality Concepts in Information System Development Methodologies", Accounting, Management and Information Technologies 1: 2, 1991, pp. 157-187.
56. Krefting, L. A. "Re-Presenting Women Executives: Valorization and Devalorization in US Business Press", paper presented at the European Group on Organizational Studies (EGOS) Conference, Lyon, France, 2001.
57. Larsen, P. "Textual Analysis of Fictional Media Content", in K. B. Jensen and N. Jankowski (Eds.), A Handbook of Qualitative Methodologies for Mass Communication Research, London: Routledge, 1991, pp. 121-148.
58. Lazarsfeld, P. F., and Merton, R. K. "Mass Communications, Popular Taste, and Organized Social Action", reprinted in W. Schramm (Ed.), Mass Communications. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1948, pp. 492-512.
59. Lee, A. S. "Electronic Mail as a Medium for Rich Communication: An Empirical Investigation Using Hermeneutic Interpretation", MIS Quarterly 18: 2, 1994, pp. 143-157.
60. Lewington J. "Acadia President's Style Assailed", Globe and Mail, November 18, 1998, p. A6.
61. Lippmann, W. Public Opinion, New York: MacMillan, 1992.
62. Lyytinen, K. J., and Klein, H. K. "The Critical Theory of Jurgen Habermas as a Basis for a Theory of Information Systems", in E. Mumford, R. Hirschheim, G. Fitzgerald, and A. T. Wood-Harper (Eds.), Research Methods in Information Systems, Amsterdam: North Holland, 1985, pp. 219-237.
63. McLaughlin, P. "The Learning Curve: St. F.X. Goes High-Tech with New $8m Network", The Halifax Daily News, January 19, 1998, p. 6.
64. McLaughlin, P. "Techno Tools: Do Students Really Need to Be Wired or Are Computers Just a Fancy Distraction from the Basics", Halifax Daily News, February 16, 1997, p. 4.
65. McLuhan, M., and Fiore, Q. War and Peace in the Global Village, New York: Bantam, 1968.
66. Meyer, J., and Rowan, B. "Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Sstructure as Myth and Ceremony, American Journal of Sociology 83, 1977, pp. 157-179.
67. Meyer, J., and Scott, R. (Eds.). Organizational Environments: Ritual and Rationality, Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1983.
68. Meyer, J., and Scott, R. (Eds.). Organizational Environments: Ritual and Rationality (rev. ed.). Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1992.
69. Michalos, A. C. Improving Your Reasoning, London: Prentice Hall, 1986.
70. Murphy, M. "Living the Acadia Experiment", Globe and Mail, June 22, 1998, p. C38.
71. Murray, F. "Technical Rationality and the IS Specialist: Power, Discourse and Identity", Critical Perspectives on Accounting 2, 1991, pp. 59-81.
72. Myers, M. D. "Dialectical Hermeneutics: A Theoretical Framework for the Implementation of Information Systems", Information Systems Journal 5: 1, 1995, pp. 51-70.
73. Nardi, B. A. and O'Day, V. L. Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999.
74. Ngwenyama, O. K. "The Critical Social Theory Approach to Information Systems: Problems and Challenges", in H-E. Nissen, H. K. Klein and R. H. Hirschheim (Eds.), Information Systems Research: Contemporary Approaches and Emergent Traditions, Amsterdam: North Holland, 1991, pp. 267-280.
75. Ngwenyama, O., and Lee, A. "Communication Richness in Electronic Mail: Critical Theory and the Contextuality of Meaning", MIS Quarterly 21: 2, 1997, pp. 145-167.
76. Noakes, S. "Virtual Classroom Opens its Doors", Financial Post, April 24, 1996, p. 14.
77. NODE. "LTReport: The Mobile Campus Matures", The Node Learning Technologies Network, 2000 (available online at http://node.on.ca/ltreport/mobile).
78. Orlikowski, W., and Yates, J. "Genre Repertoire: The Structuring of Communicative Practices in Organizations", Administrative Science Quarterly 39: 4, 1994, pp. 541-574.
79. Päivärinta, T. "The Concept of Genre Within the Critical Approach to Information Systems Development", Information and Organization 11, 2001, pp. 207-234.
80. Pearsall, K. "Higher Learning via Wired Classes: Technology is Getting Good Grades with Faculty and Students at Acadia University," Computing Canada 24: 10, 1998, pp. 11-12.
81. Phillips, N., and Hardy, C. Discourse Analysis: Investigating Processes of Social Construction, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2002.
82. Phillips, N., and Hardy, C. "Managing Multiple Identities: Discourse, Legitimacy and Resources in the UK Refugee System", Organization 4, 1997, pp. 159-186.
83. Postman, N. Technology: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, New York: Vintage, 1992.
84. Robey, D., and Markus, M. L. "Rituals in Information System Design", MIS Quarterly 8: 1, 1984, pp. 5-15.
85. Rose, E. User Error: Resisting Computer Culture, Toronto: Between the Lines, 2003.
86. Sheridan College. "Mobile Briefing", unpublished, May 2000.
87. Sommers, J. A. "Acadia Students, Professors Meet at the Sandbox", Globe and Mail, August 26, 1997, p. C5.
88. Stoll, C. Silicon Snake Oil, New York: Anchor Books, 1995.
89. Tausz, A. "How Technology Firms Court the Key Education Markets", Globe and Mail, October 15, 1996, p. C6.
90. Townley, B. "Foucault, Power/Knowledge, and its Relevance for Human Resource Management", Academy of Management Review 18: 3, 1993, pp. 518-545.
91. Truex, D. P., and Klein, H. K. "A Rejection of Structure as a Basis for Information Systems Development", in R. K. Stampler, P. Kerola, R. Lee, and K. Lyytinen (Eds.), Collaborative Work, Social Communications and Information Systems, Amsterdam: North Holland, 1991, pp. 213-235.
92. Ulrich, W. "A Philosophical Staircase for Information Systems Definition, Design, and Development: A Discursive Approach to Reflective Practice in ISD (Part 1)", Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application 3: 3, 2001, pp. 55-84.
93. Van Dijk, T. A. "The Interdisciplinary Study of News as Discourse", in K. B. Jensen and N. Jankowski (Eds.), A Handbook of Qualitative Methodologies for Mass Communication Research, London: Routledge, 1991, pp. 104-120.
94. Watters, C., Conley, M., and Alexander, C. "The D igital Agora: Using Technology for Learning in the Social Sciences", Communications of the ACM 41: 1, 1998, pp. 50-57.
95. Weick, K. E. Sense Making in Organizations, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1995.
96. Winner, L. The Whale and the Reactor, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
97. Wodak, R. (Ed.). Language, Power and Ideology: Studies in Political Discourse, Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing, 1989.
98. Wynn, E. H., Whitley, E. A., Myers, M. D., and DeGross, J. I. Global and Organizational Discourse About Information Technology, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.