Professor Lucas Introna
BCom, BA (Hons), MBA, PhD
Chair
http://sites.google.com/site/lucasintrona/
Department
Organisation Work and Technology
Research Overview
My research focus is the phenomenon of technology broadly defined and information technology more narrowly defined. Within the area of technology studies I have two enduring concerns (a) technology and its relationship with processes of organising (such as virtual organisations, collaborative working, etc) and (b) the ethical and moral implications of technology for society (such as privacy, surveillance, etc). Within these two areas my research approach has always been qualitative and mostly informed by phenomenology--existential phenomenology in particular. Specifically my focal concern is the way in which information technology transforms social spaces and practices (both individual and collective spaces and practices).
Professional Role
- Head of Department: Organisation, Work and Technology (2007-2010)
- Chairman of the Faculty Constitution Re-drafting committee (2007)
- Member of the Faculty Committee that prepared the RAE 2008 submission (2007)
- Member of the University Committee for Research Ethics (2005 - present)
- Member of Faculty Research Committee (2004-2007)
- Member of the University Working Group on Plagiarism (2002/2003)
- Co-founder of the Centre for the Study of Technology and Organisation
- Lead member of the working group that redesigned the M.Sc in Information Management
My Role
- Associate Dean for Research (2011 - current)
- Professor of Organisation, Technology and Ethics (Sept 2004 - Present)
External Roles
Visiting Profressor, University of Amsterdam
Business and Enterprise
Senior Management Consultant (1989-91) Deloitte Touche; Systems Analyst, Business Analyst and Project manager (1985-87) Kentron (Manufacturing); Computer operator and programmer
(1983-85) University of South Africa
Current Teaching
Postgraduate: ITO1: Interpretations of Information, Technology and Organisations; ITO5: Social Aspects of the Digital Age
Undergraduate: OWT 100/101: Management and Organisations
Research Interests
Research Areas: Information and power; Situated organizational cognition and embodiment; Virtuality (virtual communities, mediation, identity, etc); Ethical implications of information technology (privacy and surveillance in particular); Political studies of technology / values in the design of IT artifacts; Philosophy of technology
Research approaches / theoretical interests: Phenomenology (work of Husserl, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty); Phenomenological approaches to technology ( work of Ihde, Dreyfus and Borgmann); Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas (ethics and justice); Foucault (his work on power and the aesthetics of existence); Social construction of technology (work of Latour, Callon and Akrich)
Current Research
Ethical implications of information technology (privacy and surveillance in particular); Political studies of technology / values in the design of IT artifacts; Plagiarism, Computers and Cultural Values
Career Details
Lecturer in Information Systems (Sept 1995-Aug 2000) London School of Economics and Political Science; Professor of Information Systems (May 1995 - Aug 95) University of Pretoria; Associate Professor of Information Systems (1993- April 1995) University of Pretoria; Senior Lecturer in Information Systems (1991- March 1993) University of Pretoria
Journal article (42)
Chapter (peer-reviewed) (2)
Book (5)
Conference contribution (1)
Working paper (9)
Speech (1)
Selected publications (70)
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Publications
- Constantinides Panos, Chiasson M and Introna Lucas, 2012, 'The Ends of Information Systems Research: A Pragmatic Framework', MIS Quarterly, vol 36, no. 1, pp. 1-10.
View details - Introna Lucas, 2011, 'The Enframing of Code: Agency, originality and the plagiarist', Theory, Culture and Society, vol 28, no. 6, pp. 113-141.
View details - Introna Lucas and Hayes Niall, 2011, 'On sociomaterial imbrications: what plagiarism detection systems reveal and why it matters', Information and Organization, vol 21, no. 2, pp. 57-122.
View details - Fay E, Introna Lucas and Puyou F, 2010, 'Living with numbers: accounting for subjectivity in/with management accounting systems', Information and Organization, vol 20, no. 1, pp. 21-43.
View details - Introna Lucas, Hayes Niall and Petrakaki D, 2010, 'The working out of modernization in the public sector: the case of an e-government initiative in Greece', The International Journal of Public Administration, vol 33, no. 1, pp. 11-25.
View details - Introna Lucas and Nissenbaum H, 2009, 'Shaping the web: why the politics of search engines matters', in Major Works in Media and Communication: New Media, Sage, London
View details - Introna Lucas and Gibbons A, 2009, 'Networks and resistance:investigating online advocacy networks as a modality for resisting state surveillance', Surveillance and Society, vol 6, no. 3, pp. 233-258.
View details - Brigham Martin and Introna Lucas, 2009, 'Organizing technology:of hospitality', in Bricolage, Care and Information Systems, Palgrave, London, pp. 276-304
View details - Introna Lucas, 2009, 'Ethics and the speaking of things', Theory, Culture and Society, vol 26, no. 4, pp. 398-419.
View details - Petrakaki Dimitra, Hayes Niall and Introna Lucas, 2009, 'Narrowing down accountability through performance monitoring technology : e-government in Greece.', Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management, vol 6, no. 3, pp. 160-179.
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