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In Search of an Integrative Vision for Technology Interdisciplinary Studies in Information Systems /

"This book provides a fascinating reading experience for anyone interested in an inquiring relationship between technical progress and the quality of the human condition. It manages to keep a healthier balance between these two complex topics than is found in most publications of the genre, too...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Strijbos, Sytse (Editor ), Basden, Andrew (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2006.
Edición:1st ed. 2006.
Colección:Contemporary Systems Thinking
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: In Search of an Integrative Vision for Technology
  • Introduction: In Search of an Integrative Vision for Technology
  • Artifacts and their Development
  • Aspects of Knowledge Representation
  • Reflecting on the Use of the Concept of Qualifying Function in System Design
  • Elicitation of Highly Interdisciplinary Knowledge
  • An Appreciative Critique and Refinement of Checkland's Soft Systems Methodology
  • Socio-Technical Systems
  • The Systems Character of Modern Technology
  • Communication Without Bounds?
  • Norms of Communication and the Rise of the Network Society
  • Human Practices
  • Evaluation of Systems in Human Practice
  • Multimodal Investigation of Technology-Aided Human Practice in Business Operations
  • An Aspectual Understanding of the Human Use of Information Technology
  • Directional Perspectives
  • The Idea of a Systems Ethics
  • Normative Sources of Systems Thinking: An Inquiry into Religious Ground-Motives of Systems Thinking Paradigms
  • Towards a 'Disclosive Systems Thinking'
  • Critical Reflections
  • Reflections on the CPTS Model of Interdisciplinarity
  • Technology and Systems - but What about the Humanities?.