In the age of the smart machine: the future of work and power
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Critical issues in information systems research
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Participatory analysis of flexibility
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The Rise of the Network Society
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The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality
The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality
Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design
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The Phenomenology of Information Systems Evaluation: Overcoming the Subject/Object Dualism
Proceedings of the IFIP TC8/WG8.2 Working Conference on Global and Organizational Discourse about Information Technology
HOIT '00 Proceedings of the IFIP TC9 WG9.3 International Conference on Home Oriented Informatics and Telematics,: Information, Technology and Society
Information Systems Research
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In this paper, we attempt to show how phenomenology, in a traditional methodological form, can provide an interesting and novel basis for thinking about screens in a world where screens now pervade a great many aspects of human experience. In our analysis, we aim to give a phenomenological account of screen(ing), that is, of its fundamental and foundational meaning. In doing the phenomenological analysis, we ground our argument on the ontology of Heidegger's Being and Time. In doing this, we claim that the screen will only show itself, as that which it is, as a screen in-the-world, where screens already are or have their being 'as screens' for this and that purpose, activity or work. We claim, and aim to show, that our analysis provides many insights about the meaning of screens that would be difficult to gain through any other method of investigation. We also argue and show that, although our method is not empirical, its results have important implications for the empirical world.