Do Politics Have Artefacts?

Do Artifacts Have Politics?

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Do Categories Have Politics? The Language/Action Perspective Reconsidered

Drawing on writings within the CSCW community and on recent social theory, this paper proposes that the adoption of speech act theory as a foundation for system design carries with it an agenda of discipline and control over organization members' actions. I begin with a brief review of the language/action perspective introduced by Winograd, Flores and their colleagues, focusing in particular on...

Can Statistics Do without Artefacts?

Religion and Politics: What Does God Have To Do with It?

Since 9/11, and even more so with the atrocities committed by ISIS in Iraq and Syria, violence in the name of God is predominantly perceived as a “different” kind of violence, which triggers more “absolute” and radical manifestations than its secular counter parts. In its first part, this article will challenge this so called exceptionalism of religious violence by questioning the neat divide b...

Do Private Policies Create a New Politics ?

Through an analysis of corporate testimony before Congressional committees, this paper finds that members of Congress supply greater access to firms that engage in private policymaking at higher rates and that members also gain new politicaland policy-relevant information through such testimony. Importantly, the former relationship only holds for firms that make identifiable commitments to alte...