Computerization and Social Transformations

By Rob Kling. 1991

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Fairness and Abstraction in Sociotechnical Systems (2019, background): “Computer scientist Rob Kling calls this process reinforcement politics [44].”
Current directions in IS security research: towards socio‐organizational perspectives (2001, background): “Others have viewed computerbased information systems as social resources having little influence on power systems (Kling, 1980; Wynne & Otway, 1982; Kling, 1991).”
Technology and Institutions: What Can Research on Information Technology and Research on Organizations Learn from Each Other? (2001, unknown): “…(Boland and Tenkasi 1995; Davis 1989; Ives et al. 1983; Orlikowski and Gash 1994; Robey and Sahay 1996) and politics, culture, and strategy (Hirschheim and Newman 1991; Kling 1991; Markus 1983; Markus and Bjorn-Andersen 1987; Walsham 1993) affect a technology's acceptance, implementation, and use.”
The sociomateriality of organisational life: considering technology in management research (2010, background): “Thus, an emergent process perspective focuses primarily on the embedded and dynamic meanings, interests, and activities that are seen to produce an ensemble of technological relations (Kling, 1991; Markus and Robey, 1988).”
Big Data Surveillance: The Case of Policing (2017, background): “…on mechanical objectivity; see also Espeland and Vannebo 2007; Hacking 1990), new analytic platforms and techniques are deployed in preexisting organizational contexts (Barley 1986, 1996; Kling 1991) and embody the purposes of their crea-tors (boyd and Crawford 2012; Gitelman 2013; Kitchin 2014).”
Using Technology and Constituting Structures: A Practice Lens for Studying Technology in Organizations (2000, background): “…Davis and Taylor 1986, Zuboff 1988), Marxist studies (Braverman 1974, Edwards 1979, Shaiken 1985, Perrolle 1986), symbolic interactionist approaches (Kling 1991, Prasad 1993), transaction-cost economics (Malone et al. 1987, Ciborra 1993); network analyses (Barley 1990, Burkhardt and Brass 1990,…”
Artificial Intelligence (AI): Multidisciplinary perspectives on emerging challenges, opportunities, and agenda for research, practice and policy (2019, background): “The third industrial revolution with the invention of the computer brought increased automation and productivity but also increased pollution as a social aftermath (Kling, 1991; Langton, 1984).”