Séamas Kelly IS Discipline as a Regime of Truth Introna 2003 Regime of Truth Foucault 1977 the institutional infrastructurepractices for the production and circulation of the truth claims knowledge of a discourse ID: 579422
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Does the IS Discipline require Regime Change?
Séamas KellySlide2
IS Discipline as a ‘Regime of Truth’
(Introna 2003)
Regime of Truth
(Foucault 1977) – the institutional infrastructure/practices for the production and circulation of the truth claims (knowledge) of a discourseKnowledge is political – all knowledge claims appeal to specific regimes of truthAs IS researchers we subject ourselves to the disciplinary practices of the regime of truth that constitutes our disciplineThe status of IS as a discipline should be seen as a political question, rather than an onto-epistemological one=> The continued existence of the IS discipline should not be taken as an indication of its inherently positive contribution to the world
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The Critique of Mainstream Business Research/Education
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Relevance
?Engagement?Innovation?
Criticality?Slide4
The Future of IS
Research
? (Walsham 2012)
Mainstream orientationUnifying vision for IS field
Helping
organisations use ICT effectively
Settings
Business & government
Overarching objectives
Improved effectiveness
Methodological approach
Dominance of Positivism
Relationship with other disciplines
Drawing on other disciplines
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Traditional
Future
Unifying vision for IS field
Helping
organisations use ICT effectively
Are we making a better
world with ICT?
Settings
Business & government
Broader range of settings
Overarching objectives
Improved effectiveness
More critical and ethical orientation
Methodological approach
Dominance of Positivism
More eclectic
Relationship with other disciplines
Drawing
from other
disciplines
Genuine
interdisciplinaritySlide5
A
New Manifesto
for
IS Researchers? We are human scientists concerned with understanding and shaping the role of ICT in processes of social/economic (re-)organisation, and the production of personhood, who are driven by an overarching concern with making a better world with ICT.Critical engagementReframing problems through Conversations that MatterPersonal mastery – the craft of phronetic social inquiry
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Difficulties of Regime Change?!