Irony, Critique and Ethnomethodology in the Study of Computer Work: Fundamental Tensions

Irony, Critique and Ethnomethodology in the Study of Computer Work: Fundamental Tensions Stream 5: Exploring the Meaning of ‘Critique’ in Electronically-Mediated Work

Reconceptualising Religion : A Philosophical Critique of Religious Studies as Cultural Studies

The aim of my argument (1) is to reconceptualise what is now called religious studies as the study of institutionalised values, and the relation between values and the legitimation of power in a specific society. Though I do not talk much about power here, it is always a fundamental issue in the study of specific social groups.The first assumption which I make in this paper is that the way anal...

On "Technomethodology": Foundational Relationships Between Ethnomethodology and System Design

Over the past ten years, the use of sociological methods and sociological reasoning have become more prominent in the analysis and design of interactive systems. For a variety of reasons, one form of sociological enquiry, ethnomethodology, has become something of a favoured approach. Our goal in this paper is to investigate the consequences of approaching system design from the ethnomethodologi...

An Ontological Critique of Critical Geopolitics in Gearóid Ó Tuathail and Simon Dalby

Introduction: Philosophical research in the study of political geography in Iran is very limited. Among the existing cases, we encounter a kind of theoretical confusion that results from a lack of sufficient scientific and philosophical accuracy. Therefore, this study seeks to address the critical philosophical geopolitical critique in the writings of Ó Tuathail and Dalby by pointing out the ne...

Taking Technomethodology Seriously

The incorporation of ethnomethodology in professional systems development has prompted the call for the approach to move from design critique to design practice and the invention of the future. This has resulted in the development of a variety of mixing pot hybrids that have had marginal impact upon product-based development, whose needs the approach has been configured to meet. This paper sugg...