A Research Note on Capturing Technology: Towards Moments of Interest

Abstract

The technological is often in the background of our research, despite claims of being socio-technical. Following from Orlikowski and Iacono's call for research on the ability to theorize the technological within IS research, this research note reviews the literature on society and technology to understand how we may interrogate the technological within a discourse. This article then pr oposes that within a discourse there are moments of interest where we can observe, interrogate, and develop an understanding regarding the form of the technological. In turn, this may complement our understanding of the social, and allow for further research onhow the socio-technological world takes form