An exploration of the emergence, development and evolution of regulatory characteristics of information systems

Tsiavos, Prodromos, Whitley, Edgar A. ORCID: 0000-0003-1779-0814 and Hosein, Ian (2002) An exploration of the emergence, development and evolution of regulatory characteristics of information systems. In: 23rd International Conference on Information Systems, 2002-12-15 - 2002-12-18, Barcelona, Spain, ESP.

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What does it mean for code to be law? Is there an inherent characteristic in software that renders it a modality of regulation? How should technology-as-regulation be studied and what is the role of the developer as a regulator? These are some of the research questions we are trying to address in our study concerning the mode of development of peer-to-peer technologies and the evolution of their regulatory facets over time. The study considers whether peer-to-peer technologies have regulatory characteristics that accumulate over time as a result of the effort to deal with the complexity and uncertainty of the tasks they support. The process of development of these technologies reflects the involvement of different stakeholders, both humans and nonhumans, in the refinement and proliferation of the regulatory characteristics. In our study we follow the path of development of code-as-law and seek alternative methods, drawn from both the fields of regulatory theory and systems development, in order to study these emergent phenomena.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Official URL:	http://icisnet.aisnet.org/
Additional Information:	© 2002 ICIS
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Date Deposited:	24 Oct 2005
Last Modified:	12 Dec 2024 04:39
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/427

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