Article history: Received 9 June 2010 Received in revised form 7 June 2011 Accepted 7 June 2011 Available online 1 July 2011 Habermas' critical social theory has proven to be an important and useful lens in information systems research, especially in understanding the communicative potential of information systems and in conceiving alternative approaches to information systems development. As c...

Nowadays, there are many cases when messages and publications distributed orally in writing the media-Internet sites, social networks (Facebook, You Tube), personal Whatsapp chats, provoke conflicts between parties. This indicates possibility of language existence as a factor conflict communicative situation topicality studying its activities tool situation. The solution this problem requires t...

Research and scientific explanation about discourse democracy theory of Jurgen Habermas  and studying and evaluating reflection and generalization of his philosophical and epistemological principles are objectives which the researcher follows in this research From this view, there is studied representation of concepts and categories such as cognitive interests, communication action, discoursing...

Systems for supporting communication in organizations should be founded on a theorY of language and communication. A well-known theorY for this purpose is speech act theorY. developed by Austin and Searle. Flores e.a. used this theorY for the design of TH E COORDINATOR. Speech act theorY however has some serious shortcomings which are brought to the fore by Habermas. His examination of Searle's...