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TY - JOUR
T1 - Studying the other or becoming the other
T2 - Engaging with indigenous peoples in is research
AU - Myers, Michael D.
AU - Chughtai, Hameed
AU - Davidson, Elizabeth
AU - Tsibolane, Pitso
AU - Young, Amber G.
PY - 2020/11/9
Y1 - 2020/11/9
N2 - In this paper, we report on a panel discussion at the 2019 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) held in Munich, Germany. This panel discussed the ethics and politics of engagement with Indigenous peoples in information systems (IS) research. As members of a research team that have studied how Indigenous peoples use social media to collaborate and further their cause, we have recently learnt about some unintended consequences that IS research has. Since others could easily appropriate our findings for political purposes, we believe that we as IS researchers need to become more sensitive to the ways in which we study and engage with “the Other”. Hence, the panelists discussed and debated the nature and extent of a researcher’s engagement when studying Indigenous peoples and how they use information systems/information technology. The panel, which Michael Myers chaired, included three panelists who have studied how Indigenous people use media (Liz Davidson, Amber Young, and Hameed Chughtai) and one panelist who has studied Indigenous theories in IS (Pitso Tsibolane).
AB - In this paper, we report on a panel discussion at the 2019 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) held in Munich, Germany. This panel discussed the ethics and politics of engagement with Indigenous peoples in information systems (IS) research. As members of a research team that have studied how Indigenous peoples use social media to collaborate and further their cause, we have recently learnt about some unintended consequences that IS research has. Since others could easily appropriate our findings for political purposes, we believe that we as IS researchers need to become more sensitive to the ways in which we study and engage with “the Other”. Hence, the panelists discussed and debated the nature and extent of a researcher’s engagement when studying Indigenous peoples and how they use information systems/information technology. The panel, which Michael Myers chaired, included three panelists who have studied how Indigenous people use media (Liz Davidson, Amber Young, and Hameed Chughtai) and one panelist who has studied Indigenous theories in IS (Pitso Tsibolane).
KW - Engagement
KW - Ethics
KW - Indigenous Peoples
KW - Politics
KW - Social Inclusion
U2 - 10.17705/1CAIS.04718
DO - 10.17705/1CAIS.04718
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85096966278
VL - 47
SP - 382
EP - 396
JO - Communications of the Association for Information Systems
JF - Communications of the Association for Information Systems
SN - 1529-3181
M1 - 18
ER -