Theorizing information - from signs to sociomaterial practices

ACIS 2011 Proceedings - 22nd Australasian Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Boell, Sebastian K ^a   Cecez Kecmanovic, Dubravka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Information; Performative view of information; Semiotics; Sociomaterial view of information

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION; PERFORMATIVE VIEW OF INFORMATION; SOCIOMATERIAL VIEW OF INFORMATION; THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENT;

HARDWARE; SEMIOTICS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84869110621     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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