Panel Discussion
Wednesday 18th March, Graham Wallace Room - OLD 5.25, 3:30 - 5:30pm
The concept of digital infrastructures (DI) has caused considerable interest in the field and has given researchers a good tool to think about IS as infrastructures that are no longer restricted to administrative systems within an organization.
Tilson et al. (2010) define digital infrastructures as "shared, unbounded, heterogeneous, open, and evolving sociotechnical systems comprising an installed base of diverse information technology capabilities and their user, operations, and design communities." Fascinating as this sounds, researchers are still facing a number of questions when using DI in their actual research:
• How is researching DI different form traditional IS research?
• What methods are most appropriate to research DI?
• As DI evolve over time, what is the best way to study this evolution?
• How much of this evolution is enabled by technology?
• How much should we take the history of a case into account?
We would like to discuss these challenges in researching DI, and ways to deal with them.
Panel
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Cristina Alaimo, LSE
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John Leslie King, W.W. Bishop Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan
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Kalle Lyytinen, Professor for Design & Innovation at Case Western Reserve University
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Reuel Ocho, PhD candidate in Information Systems and Innovation at LSE
For further event information please contact Florian Allwein