A framework for understanding Information Technology as ecology

Basden, A

Abstract

Information technology (IT) deeply influences the way we live, our assumptions, aspirations, expectations, habits -- our very life-and-world-views (LWVs). It has become an environment in which we live and work, a kind of ecology in which modern life takes place. We have created it, but it also creates, or at least deeply affects, us. This area is concerned with what Lyon (1988) called the information society and Castells (1996), the network society, and it is in this area that such things as Walsham’s (2001) discussion of globalisation are considered. It addresses issues of the type found in Vignette 5 in the Preface.

Citation

Basden, A. (2008). A framework for understanding Information Technology as ecology. In A. Basden (Ed.), Philosophical Frameworks for Understanding Information Systems (309-337). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-036-3.ch008

• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2008
• Deposit Date: Apr 14, 2014
• Publisher: IGI Global
• Pages: 309-337
• Book Title: Philosophical Frameworks for Understanding Information Systems
• ISBN: 9781599040363
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-036-3.ch008
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-036-3.ch008
• Related Public URLs: http://www.amazon.com/Philosophical-Frameworks-Understanding-Information-Systems/dp/1599040360
• Additional Information: Additional Information : This is final draft of chapter in book.