How aesthetic engagement with IT is shaping digital society: An ethnographic example
How aesthetic engagement with IT is shaping digital society: An ethnographic example
In this paper, we discuss an empirical example of the everyday aesthetics of engagement with information systems work practices. Drawing on an ethnographic study, we suggest that the information systems phenomena can be seen as a form of artwork in the practices of a new generation of IT professionals. Using the aesthetic ontology of art, an artwork is conceptualised as something that manifests, articulates, and reconfigures the human practices in a digital society. This paper is intended as an empirical contribution towards advancing the discussion of the aesthetics of engagement in the information systems literature.
aesthetics, art theory, Artwork, Ethnography
Association for Information Systems
Chughtai, Hameed
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30 June 2018
Chughtai, Hameed
e8600973-9db8-4649-be67-def5f2a83a72
Chughtai, Hameed
(2018)
How aesthetic engagement with IT is shaping digital society: An ethnographic example.
In Twenty-Second Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: Yokohama, Japan, June 28-30.
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In this paper, we discuss an empirical example of the everyday aesthetics of engagement with information systems work practices. Drawing on an ethnographic study, we suggest that the information systems phenomena can be seen as a form of artwork in the practices of a new generation of IT professionals. Using the aesthetic ontology of art, an artwork is conceptualised as something that manifests, articulates, and reconfigures the human practices in a digital society. This paper is intended as an empirical contribution towards advancing the discussion of the aesthetics of engagement in the information systems literature.
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Accepted/In Press date: 23 April 2018
Published date: 30 June 2018
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aesthetics, art theory, Artwork, Ethnography
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