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1、doi:10.1111/j.1365-2575.2008.00296.xInfoSystemsJ(2009)19,175196175Acriticalanalysisofmediadiscourseoninformationtechnology:preliminaryresultsofaproposedmethodforcriticaldiscourseanalysisWendyCukier*,OjelankiNgwenyama*,RobertBauer&CatherineMiddleton**TedRo
2、gersSchoolofManagement,RyersonUniversity,Toronto,Ontario,Canada,email:wcukier@ryerson.ca,catherine.middleton@ryerson.ca,AarhusSchoolofBusiness,UniversityofAarhus,Aarhus,Denmark,email:ojelanki@ryerson.ca,andInstituteforOrganizationalStudies,JohannesKeplerU
3、niversity,Linz,Austria,email:robert.bauer@jku.atAbstract.Sincethe1980s,therehasbeenagrowingbodyofcriticaltheoryininformationsystemsresearch.AcentraltheoreticalfoundationofthisresearchisHabermastheoryofcommunicativeaction,whichfocusesonimplicationsofspeech
4、andproposesgeneralnormativestandardsforcommunication.Habermasalsoplacesparticularemphasisontheimportanceofthepublicsphereinademocraticsociety,critiquingtheroleofthemediaandotheractorsinshapingpublicdiscourse.Whiletherehasbeengrowingemphasisoncriticaldisco
5、urseanalysis(CDA),therehasbeenlimitedefforttosystematicallyapplyHabermasvalidityclaimstoempiricalresearch.Moreover,whilecriticalresearchininforma-tionsystemshasexaminedcommunicationwithintheorganizationalcontext,publicdiscourseoninformationtechnologyhasre
6、ceivedlittleattention.Thepapermakesthreeprimarycontributions:(1)itrespondstoHabermascallforempiricalresearchtogroundandextendhistheoryofcommunicationineverydaycriticalpractice;(2)itproposesanapproachtoapplyingHabermastheoryofcommuni-cationtoCDA;and(3)itex
7、tendsthereachofcriticalresearchininformationsystemsbeyondmicro-levelorganizationalconcernsandopensuptocriticalreflectionanddebateontheimpactofsystematicallydistortedcommunicationabouttechnologyinthepublicsphere.Keywords:criticaldiscourseanalysis,criticalth
8、eory,Habermas,communicativerationality,informationsystemsresearchmethodology©2008TheAuthorsJournalcompilation©2008BlackwellPublishingLtd176WCukieretal.INTRODUCTIONSincetheearly1980s,therehasbeenatraditionofcriticalt