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A Habermasian-based critical discourse analysis of the ICT strategies of the Centre for e-Innovation, Provincial Government of the Western Cape
There is much political discourse concerning the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in supporting the achievement of development goals. Given the increasing prevalence and importance of ICTs in society, the Centre for e-Innovation (Cel), Provincial Government of the Western Ca...
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| description | There is much political discourse concerning the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in supporting the achievement of development goals. Given the increasing prevalence and importance of ICTs in society, the Centre for e-Innovation (Cel), Provincial Government of the Western Cape, South Africa, has prepared five strategic documents outlining how to utilise ICTs for development and create an information society in the province. Amidst the discourse about ICT for development there is, however, a recurrent theme of technological determinism, which is shown to be a cause of the high failure rate of ICT for development projects. Based on the approach of Cukier, Middleton & Bauer (2003) and Cukier, Bauer and Middleton (2004) to operationalising Habermas' validity claims to assess communicative rationality, I conducted a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of the five Cel strategic documents to determine whether or not these are distorted, e.g. through claims of technological determinism. The study found a large number of distortions in the discourse. Suggestions are provided for how to create less distorted strategies, which more closely resemble Habermas' ideal speech situation. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/39397 A Habermasian-based critical discourse analysis of the ICT strategies of the Centre for e-Innovation, Provincial Government of the Western Cape Vosloo, Steve Chigona, Wallace Information Systems There is much political discourse concerning the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in supporting the achievement of development goals. Given the increasing prevalence and importance of ICTs in society, the Centre for e-Innovation (Cel), Provincial Government of the Western Cape, South Africa, has prepared five strategic documents outlining how to utilise ICTs for development and create an information society in the province. Amidst the discourse about ICT for development there is, however, a recurrent theme of technological determinism, which is shown to be a cause of the high failure rate of ICT for development projects. Based on the approach of Cukier, Middleton & Bauer (2003) and Cukier, Bauer and Middleton (2004) to operationalising Habermas' validity claims to assess communicative rationality, I conducted a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of the five Cel strategic documents to determine whether or not these are distorted, e.g. through claims of technological determinism. The study found a large number of distortions in the discourse. Suggestions are provided for how to create less distorted strategies, which more closely resemble Habermas' ideal speech situation. 2024-04-17T13:58:53Z 2024-04-17T13:58:53Z 2008 2024-04-17T13:24:50Z Thesis / Dissertation Masters MCom http://hdl.handle.net/11427/39397 eng application/pdf Faculty Commerce: IT Faculty of Commerce |
| spellingShingle | Information Systems Vosloo, Steve A Habermasian-based critical discourse analysis of the ICT strategies of the Centre for e-Innovation, Provincial Government of the Western Cape |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | A Habermasian-based critical discourse analysis of the ICT strategies of the Centre for e-Innovation, Provincial Government of the Western Cape |
| title_full | A Habermasian-based critical discourse analysis of the ICT strategies of the Centre for e-Innovation, Provincial Government of the Western Cape |
| title_fullStr | A Habermasian-based critical discourse analysis of the ICT strategies of the Centre for e-Innovation, Provincial Government of the Western Cape |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Habermasian-based critical discourse analysis of the ICT strategies of the Centre for e-Innovation, Provincial Government of the Western Cape |
| title_short | A Habermasian-based critical discourse analysis of the ICT strategies of the Centre for e-Innovation, Provincial Government of the Western Cape |
| title_sort | habermasian based critical discourse analysis of the ict strategies of the centre for e innovation provincial government of the western cape |
| topic | Information Systems |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/39397 |
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