This paper presents some key concepts and underlying assumptions of three current fields of research: the Theory of Organized Activity, Organizational Semiotics and Language Action Perspective. All these fields are related by a human/social/organizational common view of Information Systems. In our analysis and, within Organizational Semiotics field Ronald Stamper’s theory was chosen, while with...

One of the recent Web developments has focused on the opportunities it presents for social tagging through user participation and collaboration. As a result, social tagging has changed the traditional online communication process. The interpretation of tagging between humans and machines may create new problems if essential questions about how social tagging corresponds to online communications...

The workpractices associated with the use of an information system can be described using semiotic theories in terms of patterns of human communication. A model of workpractices has been created called the Systemic Semiotic Workpractice Framework that employs two compatible but distinct semiotic theories in order to explain the complexity of information systems use in organizational contexts. O...

Within the IS research field, there are many views on how to understand the use of IT systems. Within the community of organisational semiotics, Stamper’s semiotic framework has been used as a tool to understand information systems at different abstraction levels. Another theory related to organisational semiotics, Information Systems Actability Theory (ISAT), argues that social action theories...

Technical proficiency has not enabled our profession to deliver value for money in terms of improved organisational performance. Evidence of this failure is adduced. The recommended change is to approach organisations as the information systems we develop. To achieve this we need a better understanding of information, the key resource, better ways of modelling organisations in information terms...

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Abstract This paper explores a semiotic notion of body as starting point for bridging biosemiotic with social theory. The cornerstone the argument is that criticism classic view meaning double articulation can support language-centrism lies at foundation biosemiotics. Besides pragmatic epistemological advantages implicit in theoretical synthesis, I argue this brings contribution to philosophy m...