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The Hegelian Inquiring System and Critical Triangulation Tools for the Internet Information Slave

Author: Engelse Natalie den
Meertens Lucas
Wijnhoven Fons
Publication venue: Association for Information Systems (AIS)
Publication date: 01/01/2010
Field of study

This paper discusses informing, i.e. increasing people’s understanding of reality by providing representations of this reality. The Hegelian inquiry system is used to explain the nature of informing. Understanding the Hegelian inquiry system is essential for making informed decisions where the reality can be ambiguous and where sources of bias and manipulation have to be understood for increasing the level of free-informed choice. This inquiry system metaphorically identifies information masters and slaves, and we propose critical dialectic information triangulation (CDIT) tools for information slaves (i.e. non-experts) in dialect interactions with informative systems owned by supposed information masters. The paper concludes with suggestions for further research on informative triangulation tools for the internet and management information systems

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A Dialectical Analysis on Upgrading Underdeveloped Guangdong Agriculture with Digital Ecological Industry

Author: Qing Luo
Shihan Jiang
Xinyu Tang
Publication venue: SCHOLINK INC.
Publication date: 28/10/2023
Field of study

The upgrading of underdeveloped Guangdong agriculture is analysed by Materialist dialectics. Agriculture should not be seen as a symbol of backwardness, but rather as an important ecological industry that can be upgraded with advanced digital science and technology. Cognitive innovation and environmental innovation are emphasized in attracting innovative talents and supporting digital ecological industry. The upgrading path of the digital ecological industry highlights top-level design and systematic planning. Overall, the document emphasizes the strategic value of agriculture and the potential for Guangdong to play a dominant role in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) through digital ecological industry upgrading. Digitalization may enable Guangdong integrate agriculture, industry, and service industries to achieve ecological civilization

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Risk, dread and the crisis of counter-terrorism security

Author: Campbell Perri
Howie Luke
Publication venue: Universidade de Caxias do Sul
Publication date: 01/01/2013
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Deakin Research Online

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Proposing a theoretical framework for local territorial identities: concepts, questions and pitfalls

Author: Banini T
Publication venue: 'Territorial Identity and Development'
Publication date: 01/01/2017
Field of study

When local territorial identity is understood as closely linked to sustainable, participatory and place-based development issues, it can become a dynamic, open, and plural social construction process, through which collectivities/groups choose the distinctive characteristics of the territory they inhabit, in order to develop shared views and common targets for policy implementation. In this sense, territorial identity is not to be ‘unveiled’ or ‘discovered’, but ‘built’ through a research-action focused on the opinions, attitudes, and expectations of local collectivities towards the territory they live or act in. As a research topic, local territorial identity is far from easy to deal with. Based on the key issues raised during the works of the national research group “Territorial Identities” of A.Ge.I. (Association of Italian Geographers), founded in 2008, the contribution aims at presenting some theoretical and methodological questions and pitfalls in studying territorial identities, proposing some possible answer

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Archivio della ricerca- Università di Roma La Sapienza

Dialectic Tensions in the Context of Inter-organizational Integration

Author: Camposano José Carlos
Smolander Kari
Publication venue: AIS Electronic Library (AISeL)
Publication date: 06/11/2019
Field of study

This study compares the perspectives on inter-organizational integration of information between stakeholders of the architecture, engineering, construction, and facilities management (AEC/FM) industry in Finland. Our findings are grounded on semi-structured interviews with practitioners that participated in a project of the Finnish government. Applying the theoretical framework of dialectical analysis, we identified six dimensions where conflicting points of view may arise regarding shared information: Ontology, standards, storage, openness, monetization and the involvement of the public sector. We argue that stakeholders will have stronger motivation to integrate with new actors if they share the same vision about one or more of such challenge areas. Awareness of these tensions helps to understand and guide the development of inter-organizational information systems in networked industries

AIS Electronic Library (AISeL)

Opportunity Creation in Innovation Networks: Interactive Revealing Practices

Author: Jarvenpaa Sirkka L.
Valikangas Liisa
Publication venue
Publication date: 01/01/2014
Field of study

Innovating in networks with partners that have diverse knowledge is challenging. The challenges stem from the fact that the commonly used knowledge protection mechanisms often are neither available nor suitable in early stage exploratory collaborations. This article focuses on how company participants in heterogeneous industry networks share private knowledge while protecting firm-specific appropriation. We go beyond the prevailing strategic choice perspectives to discuss interactive revealing practices that sustain joint opportunity creation in the fragile phase of early network formation.Center for Business, Technology and La

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Handmade films and artist-run labs. The chemical sites of film’s counterculture

Author: Catanese Rossella
Parikka Jussi
Publication venue: 'Amsterdam University Press'
Publication date: 01/01/2018
Field of study

This article addresses handmade films and especially artist-run labs as sites of hands-on film culture that reactivate moments and materials from media history. Drawing on existing research, discourses and discussions with contemporary experimental filmmakers affiliated with labs or practicing their work in relation to film lab infrastructure, we focus on these sites of creation, preservation and circulation of technical knowledge about analog film. But instead of reinforcing the binary of analog vs. digital, we argue that the various material practices from self-made apparatuses to photochemistry and film emulsions are ways of understanding the multiple materials and layered histories that define post-digital culture of film. This focus links our discussion with some themes in media archaeology (experimental media archaeology as a practice) and to current discussions about labs as arts and humanities infrastructure for collective project and practice-based methods

Archivio della ricerca- Università di Roma La Sapienza

EXPLAINING AN E-IDENTIFICATION FRAMEWORK IMPLEMENTATION USING DIALECTICS

Author: Bazarhanova Anar
Lähteenmäki Ilkka
Smolander Kari
Publication venue: AIS Electronic Library (AISeL)
Publication date: 15/05/2019
Field of study

This article analyses the challenges of implementing a new electronic identification (eID) framework in Finland. We employ the theoretical lens of dialectics to explain how two opposing forces in the form of public and private actors, the government and banks respectively, engaged in a process of resistance and acquiescence. By interviewing the key organizations from both sides, we identify the rationale of the conflict, mechanisms that have led and may lead to further conflict, and the outcome. The root cause of the problems with the framework include the conflicting goals of the government and banks: the regulators’ interests to create more competition in the market, generate cost savings, decrease the dependence on banks vs. the objectives of the banks to maintain the status quo. Moreover, the framework implementation practices, such as the hard enforcement strategy, an inherent infrastructuring mindset of the government and communication problems, have considerably contributed to further conflict development. As a result, divergent views on the framework architecture and the pricing models are the outcomes of the confrontation. Our findings emphasize the importance of strategic and operational coherence in the governance of a changing ecosystem with a proprietary banking platform playing a role in a national eID scheme

AIS Electronic Library (AISeL)

Threats to Autonomy from Emerging ICT’s

Author: Dainow Brandt
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Publication date: 01/01/2018
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This thesis investigates possible future threats to human autonomy created by currently emerging ICT’s. Prepared for evaluation as PhD by Publication, it consists of four journal papers and one book chapter, together with explanatory material. The ICT’s under examination are drawn from the results of the ETICA project, which sought to identify emerging ICT’s of ethical import. We first evaluate this research and identify elements in need of enhancement – the social aspects pertaining to ethical impact and the need to introduce elements of General Systems Theory in order to account for ICT’s as socio-technical systems. The first two publications for evaluation present arguments from marxist and capitalist perspectives which provide an account of the social dimensions through which an ICT can reduce human autonomy. There are many competing accounts of what constitutes human autonomy. These may be grouped into classes by their primary characteristics. The third publication for evaluation cross-references these classes with the ICT’s identified by the ETICA project, showing which version of autonomy could be restricted by each ICT and how. Finally, this paper induces from this analysis some general characteristics which any ICT must exhibit if it is to restrict autonomy of any form. Since ICT’s all operate in the same environment, the ultimate effect on the individual is the aggregated effect of all those ICT’s with which they interact and can be treated as an open system. Our fourth paper for evaluation therefore develops a theory of ICT’s as systems of a socio-technical nature, titled “Integrated Domain Theory”. Our fifth publication uses Integrated Domain Theory to explore the manner in which sociotechnical systems can restrict human autonomy, no matter how conceived. This thesis thus offers two complementary answers to the primary research question

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