Really enjoyed the debate around the objectivist vs. subjectivist views of technology...
The most insightful finding for me was that we view technology almost by nature subjectively. This was evident in how we found it difficult to understand that taking an objective view meant that both systems in the intranet and online publishing examples from the Kling 2000 article were actually successful... but as far as we were concerned the one had failed because we viewed it in context (subjectively).
Yet... yet... we almost take an object view when building and even sometimes in measuring the success of these same systems from an insider standpoint.
This has definately something that i will take directly into my line of work and ensure that we always try our best to use a subjective view when implementing systems.
Perhaps this argument takes a first stab at answering my question as well... It could be the objectivity of the business managers that prevent seeing the full impact of technology in the business. If there is a working system... they cannot see the value in enhancing or replacing it with something that would be more fit for the new or changed context within which they operate.
Perhaps a start would be to bring the 'Subjective' awareness of technology to these business managers??
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Wiping of your blogs is part of the package - don't worry too much about it; next time you know what to do. These are some of the things we learn from such course without even realizing it!
ReplyDeleteAs for the airlink case, you had a good take on it, but you lost much more (have some notes to share with you)
I also like the fact that you find some of the course concepts answering some of your questions