Mingers, John and Willcocks, Leslie P. 
ORCID: 0000-0003-2572-9554
(2017)
An integrative semiotic methodology for IS research.
Information and Organization, 27 (1).
pp. 17-36.
ISSN 1471-7727
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Abstract
Semiotics studies the production, transmission and interpretation of meaning represented symbolically in signs and messages, primarily but not exclusively in language. For information systems (IS) the domain of semiosis consists of human and non-human interactions based on technologically-mediated communication in the social, material and personal worlds. The paper argues that semiosis has immense bearing on processes of communication central to the advanced information and communications technologies studied by IS scholars. Its use separately, or in mixed methods approaches, enriches areas of central concern to the IS field, and is particularly apt when researching internet-based development and applications, for example virtual worlds and social media. This paper presents a four step structured methodology, informed by a central theoretical semiotic framework to provide practical guidelines for operationalizing semiotics in IS research. Thus, using illustrative examples, the paper provides a step-by-step semiotics approach to research based on distinctive semiotic concepts and their relationships – producer, consumer, medium, code, message and content – and how, at an integrating level, the personal, social and material worlds relate through sociation, embodiment and socio-materiality.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/14717... |
| Additional Information: | © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. |
| Divisions: | Management |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Z665 Library Science. Information Science |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Mar 2017 13:09 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2024 01:27 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/69809 |
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