Professor Lucas Introna
BCom, BA (Hons), MBA, PhD
Professor of Organisation, Technology and Ethics
Department
Organisation, Work and Technology
Organisational Roles
Head of Department; Member of the Centre for the Study of Technology and Organisation; Past Programme Director of MSc IT, Mgt and Organisational Change (2000 - 2004); Member of the Faculty Research Committee; Member of the University Research Ethics Committee.
External Roles
Visiting Profressor, University of Amsterdam
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
Profile
Editorial Positions: Ethics and Information Technology - Co-Editor; MISQ - Associate Editor; Information Systems Research - Associate Editor; International Review of Information Ethics - Editorial Board; Philosophy in the Contemporary World - Editorial Board
View all publications (82)
Journal/Serial (33)
Book (5)
Chapter in Book (36)
Working Paper (8)
Selected Publications
- Introna L, forthcoming, 'Ethics and the speaking of things', Theory, Culture and Society
- Ilharco FM, Introna L and Fay E, 2008, Phenomenology, Organisation, and Technology, Universidade Católica Editora and POT Books, Lisbon
- Introna L, 2008, 'Understanding phenomenology: the use of phenomenology in the social study of technology', in Phenomenology, Organisation, and Technology, (eds) Introna L, Ilharco FM and Fay E, Universidade Católica Editora and POT Books, Lisbon
- Costea B and Introna L, 2008, 'On the mystery of the other and diversity management', in Phenomenology, Organisation, and Technology, (eds) Introna L, Ilharco FM and Fay E, Universidade Católica Editora and POT Books, Lisbon
- Introna L and Brigham M, 2008, 'Community and virtual strangers', in Phenomenology, Organisation, and Technology, (eds) Introna L, Ilharco FM and Fay E, Universidade Católica Editora and POT Books, Lisbon, pp 281-294
- Introna L, 2007, 'Maintaining the reversibility of foldings: making the ethics (politics) of information technology visible', Ethics and Information Technology, vol 9(1), pp 11-25
- Brigham M and Introna L, 2007, 'Invoking politics and ethics in the design of information technology', Ethics and Information Technology, vol 9(1), pp 1-10
- Introna L and Brigham M, 2007, 'Reconsidering community and the stranger in the age of virtuality', Society and Business Review, vol 2(2), pp 166-178
- Introna L, 2007, 'Making sense of ICT, new media and ethics', in The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies, (eds) Mansell R, Avgerou C, Quah D and Silverstone R, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp 314-333, ISBN: 0-19-926623-9
- Introna L, 2007, 'Virtual strangers', in Localizing the Internet: Ethical Issues in Intercultural Perspective, (eds) Capurro R, pp 95-108, ISBN: 9783770542000
