Schedule and Topics
Module 1: What is IS Theory? Types of Theory and Their Purpose
- Foundational concepts of theory: ontology and epistemology
- Types of paradigms: Interpretive, positivist, critical realism
- Types of theory (Gregory)
- Building vs applying theory
- Process vs factor-based approaches
- Generalizations
Three Physical lectures at UiO Oslo
Mon Aug 28th
Wed Aug 30th
Fri Sept 1st
Fri Sept 1st afternoon Seminars
Module 2: Theorizing Context
- What is context? Its importance to theorization
- Approaches to theorizing context (macro and micro perspectives)
Two Hybrid lectures (UiO and online)
Week of Sept 4th, 2 lectures
Fri Sept 8th afternoon Seminars
Module 3: Understanding Technology: Different Theoretical Perspectives
- Affordance perspectives
- Actor network and Infrastructure perspective
- Assemblage perspective
- Socio-material perspective
Three Hybrid lectures (UiO and online)
Week of Sept 11th, 2 lectures
Fri Sept 15th afternoon Seminars
Week of Sept 18th, 1 lecture
Module 4: Analysing the Organization-Technology Relationship
- Systems Thinking and Complexity
- Institutional perspective
- Structuration perspective
- Science and Technology perspective
Three hybrid lectures (UiO and online)
Week of Sept 18th, 1 lecture
Fri Sept 22nd afternoon Seminars
Week of Sept 25th, 2 lectures
Fri Sept 29th afternoon Seminars
Module 5: Emerging Theoretical Challenges
- Changing landscape of challenges (climate, conflict, humanitarian crises, antimicrobial resistance)
- Understanding what technologies can do and cannot do, and it theorization
Two physical lectures at UiA Kristiansand
Week of Oct 2nd, 2 lectures
Fri Oct 6th afternoon Seminars
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