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Why we do not have to worry about speaking the language of the computer
Hubert L. DreyfusProposes that while it is not unfeasible that we will be able to communicate directly with computers in ordinary language, it is highly unlikely that this will ever be achieved…
Insistent emplacement: Heidegger on the technologies of informing
Steven D. Brown, Geoffrey M. LightfootExplores how the work of Martin Heidegger may be read alongside our contemporary understandings of information technology. It begins by considering the view of information as…
From tool to Gestell: Agendas for managing the information infrastructure
Claudio U. Ciborra, Ole HansethThe recent managerial literature on the development of corporate infrastructures to deliver sophisticated and flexible IT capabilities is based on a set of assumptions concerning…
The World Wide Web’s shadow of opportunity: A Heideggerian perspective of authenticity in the information age
Kimberly CassThis paper will examine Heidegger’s conditions for Dasein (human being) discovering its authenticity through acting in the world in such a way as to create meaning for itself…
Cyberspace and Heidegger’s pragmatics
Richard CoyneThis article focuses on some of the implications of Heidegger’s pragmatism for information technology analysis and critique. I survey Heidegger’s transformation of Enlightenment…
Information technology and the institution of identity: Reflections since Understanding Computers and Cognition
Fernando FloresThe author’s previous work, itself based on the work of Martin Heidegger and then the Speech Act theorists grounded two important claims. First, computers are about communication…
ISSN:
0959-3845Renamed from:
Office Technology and PeopleOnline date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Prof Edgar Whitley
- Prof Kevin Crowston
- Prof Yulin Fang
- Prof Jyoti Choudrie