Rethinking e-Government Research: The ‘ideology-artefact complex’

Davenport, Elisabeth; Horton, Keith

Abstract

The authors present a framework for e-government research that draws heavily on Iacono and Kling’s work on computerization movements. They build on this work by appropriating cognate studies of organizational informatics by Kling and his colleagues, and socio-technical research in the UK. From this blend, they derive a construct, the ‘ideology-artefact complex’. Using empirical work (including recent case studies of their own), they indicate how this may inform e-government research. They discuss ways in which the construct may act as a bridge between two traditions of UK/European social informatics and US socio-technical research. They discuss a potential research agenda for computerization movements in e-government that focuses on three main problem areas: macro level social order, counter-movements and material realisation.

Citation

Davenport, E., & Horton, K. (2006, October). Rethinking e-Government Research: The ‘ideology-artefact complex’. Presented at 6TH IFIP International Conference on e-Commerce, e-Business, and e-Government (13E 2006), Turku, Finland

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (Published)
• Conference Name: 6TH IFIP International Conference on e-Commerce, e-Business, and e-Government (13E 2006)
• Start Date: Oct 11, 2006
• End Date: Oct 13, 2006
• Publication Date: 2006
• Deposit Date: Feb 16, 2010
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 16, 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 226
• Pages: 380-391
• Series Title: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
• Series Number: 226
• Series ISSN: 1868-4238
• Book Title: Project E-Society: Building Bricks. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing,
• ISBN: 9780387392264
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39229-5_31
• Keywords: e-government; research; computerization movements; organizational informatics; socio-technical research; 'ideology-artefact complex'
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3453
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39229-5_31
• Additional Information: The authors wish to acknowledge help with sources from Angus Whyte and Nick Adams of the International Teledemocracy Centre, Napier University, Edinburgh, and Alice Robbin of the Centre for Social Informatics and the School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the CRITO Social Informatics Workshop, UC Irvine, USA, March 2005
• Contract Date: Feb 16, 2010