Abstract
The information systems (IS) research community has long engaged in dialogue as to the core of IS and the discipline's legitimacy within business schools. Our concern is that efforts to protect the discipline by theorizing the IT artifact may have diverted attention from conceptualizing information as the dependent variable, through which we assess the effectiveness of our true core subject matter-information systems. To evaluate this supposition, this study employs a text-mining software, Leximancer v.4, to analyze the content of editorials published in AIS "basket of six" journals between 2002 and 2014. Preliminary results hint at subtle changes in themes, as well as the meaning and relevance of "information" over time. Once analysis is complete, we will draw on the findings to suggest potential opportunities and directions for IS research that treat information (the end) as seriously as its means (the IT artifact).
| Original language | English (US) |
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| State | Published - 2015 |
| Event | 2015 International Conference on Information Systems: Exploring the Information Frontier, ICIS 2015 - Fort Worth, United States Duration: Dec 13 2015 → Dec 16 2015 |
Other
| Other | 2015 International Conference on Information Systems: Exploring the Information Frontier, ICIS 2015 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Fort Worth |
| Period | 12/13/15 → 12/16/15 |
Keywords
- Conference publications
- Formats
- IT artifact
- Instructions
- Length
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Science Applications
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
- Library and Information Sciences
- Applied Mathematics