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Negotiating Information Technology: Politics and Practices of a Web Site
Responsible organisation
2002 (English)Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

In this paper I investigate municipal web production activities in a Swedish context. I implement Gärtner & Wagners suggestion about thinking through three different arenas when studying design processes: Arena A for individual projects, Arena B for organisational layer and Arena C for the national arena. The arena C, in my case National politics, I regard as the dominating information political discourse, which draws up the ideological scene of the topics, which are available for the information technology translations at the local level. The Arena B is a municipal political IT-vision document. The arena A is an analysis of an interview with a municipal web developer. I implement the analytical tools and vocabulary of the actor-network theory (ANT). I suggest that the web design process is a network of negotiations, where political documents, web producers, private companies, software, and time meet. The messy mixture of actors reinforces the idea of understanding information technology as a hybrid of humans and non-humans, and technology and society. By understanding the complexity of the design process also enables us to think about why the everyday work sometimes seems to be complex, vulnerable and unstable.

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Malmö: CPSR & ACM & STIMDI , 2002.
Keywords [en]
Information technology, Politics, Public sector, Web production, Sweden
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Media and Communications
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URN: urn:nbn:se:bth-9626Local ID: oai:bth.se:forskinfoB773DAA32236C2D3C1256E30005793A9ISBN: 0966781821 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:bth-9626DiVA, id: diva2:837524
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Available from: 2012-09-18 Created: 2004-02-04 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved

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