This book takes quite a different approach altogether. In a series of essays, Ciborra uses a string of metaphors ? such as Bricolage, Krisis, Gestell, etc. ? to place a concern for human existence and our working lives at the centre of the study of ICTs and their diffusion in business organizations, and looks at our practices, improvisations, and moods. He draws upon his own extensive research and consulting experience to throw a fresh light on some key questions: why are systems ambiguous?
Why do they not give us more time to do things? Is there strategic value in tinkering even in high-tech settings? What is the value of age-old practices in dealing with new technologies? What is the role of moods and affections in influencing action and cognition?
Labyrinths of Information presents an alternative to the current approaches in management, software-engineering, and strategy that will be of interest to all those concerned with the deployment of ICTs in society today ? whether as users, managers, designers, policy makers, or the merely curious.
The Labyrinths of Information: Challenging the Wisdom of Systems Ebook
Author: Claudio Ciborra
File Size: 1065 KB
Print Length: 212 pages
Publisher: OUP Oxford; 1 edition (September 23, 2004)
Publication Date: September 23, 2004
Language: English
