Information Technology & People: Volume 19 Issue 3

Critical research in information systems: looking forward, looking back

Lynette Kvasny, Helen Richardson

The purpose of this article is to reflect on the development of critical research in information systems and give an overview of the papers chosen for this special issue.

Enabling or disabling technologies? A critical approach to web accessibility

Alison Adam, David Kreps

The purpose of this article is to analyse the continuing problem of web accessibility for disabled people as a critical information systems issue.

Technologies of the self: virtual work and the inner panopticon

Paul Jackson, Hosein Gharavi, Jane Klobas

This paper seeks to develop insights into control, power, consent and commitment with virtual knowledge workers who are removed from the immediate sphere of influence of…

Combining social shaping of technology and communicative action theory for understanding rhetorical closure in IT

Marlei Pozzebon, Ryad Titah, Alain Pinsonneault

Proposes the concept of rhetorical closure to address the phenomenon of pervasive IT “fashions”. Suggests that prevailing discourses surrounding IT are dominated by the rhetoric…

Critical empirical research in IS: an example of gender and the IT workforce

Eileen M. Trauth, Debra Howcroft

This article aims to add to the growing number of critical empirical studies and to reflect on the process of conducting this type of research, thereby addressing the lack of…