ICTs in the Contemporary World seminar

The Future of Information Systems – Thinking Informatically

Tony Bryant
Department of Informatics, Leeds Metropolitan University

Tuesday 3 March, 2009
3.00 - 5.00 p.m.

venue NAB LG.09

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Many of those who are active within the Academic field of IS are constantly seeking a firm disciplinary basis for their endeavours. In many respects such efforts are based upon a mistaken view of how disciplines are actually constituted, and the purposes that they serve. In many respects it would be far more fruitful if those working within the field of IS were to accept a more fluid and contingent notion of a discipline; simultaneously recognizing the contested nature of many of the core concepts – particularly information, communication, and technology. In so doing we will be Thinking Informatically.

The seminar will give an overview of how these ideas can be developed and the impact this might have on the IS discipline.


Tony Bryant is currently Professor of Informatics at Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK. His initial studies and his PhD were in the social and political sciences. He later completed a Masters in Computing, followed by several years working as a Systems Analyst and Project Leader for a commercial software developer.

In 1988 he was appointed as BT Reader in Software Engineering, which involved leading a research team developing mathematical verification methods for software. He has also worked on government IT projects, and collaborated with major commercial companies on a variety of projects. He has developed and taught a wide range of post-graduate courses in South Africa, Malaysia, and China. He is currently ASEM Professor at the University of Malaya, and Visiting Professor at the University of Amsterdam.

His recent publications include Thinking Informatically: A New Understanding of Information, Communication & Technology (Edwin Mellen 2006), a series of collaborative articles in Theory, Culture & Society focusing on the work of Zygmunt Bauman and Gustav Metzger – ‘Liquid Arts’, TCS 2007. He is Senior Editor of The SAGE Handbook of Grounded Theory (SAGE, 2007) – co-edited with Kathy Charmaz with whom he has worked extensively within the area of Grounded Theory and research methods in general.
 

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