@article {679,
	title = {American Discourses of the Digital Divide and Economic Development: A Sisyphean Order to Catch Up?},
	year = {2006},
	pages = {51 - 65},
	abstract = {Discourses about technology and its role in development have been constant themes within IFIP Working Group 8.2 (see the Barcelona proceedings{\textemdash}Wynn et al. 2002). In this paper, we examine how strands of discourse{\textemdash}institutionalized ways of thinking and speaking{\textemdash}shape
 debate about the digital divide and urban poverty in America. As research is widely esteemed as a wellspring of new ideas,
 we are especially interested in how discourses inform scholarly inquiry into urgent social problems. As information and communication
 technologies (ICTs) are increasingly hailed as drivers of industry and commerce, we believe that it will be instructive to
 examine economic development discourse, which strongly informs the case for bridging the digital divide.
 First, using Fairclough{\textquoteright}s three-level framework for critical discourse analysis (CDA), we reveal that the discursive hegemony
 of economic development alarmingly constrains approaches to urban revitalization. Linking economic development to the digital
 divide, we show how the ongoing evolution of ICTs has become tightly linked to economic development. Both are discourses of
 equality in which those who lack money and technology are cast as needy problem sectors that will be left behind, failing
 to reap a host of benefits. Hence, there is an urgent call for these {\textquotedblleft}have-nots{\textquotedblright} to catch up to models of prosperity embodied
 by the wealthy or technology savvy. We find fault with this discourse because it narrowly privileges money and technology,
 and raises alarm at their mere absence, while obscuring substantive needs{\textemdash}hunger, homelessness, ill health{\textemdash}of actual consequence.
 We propose that, in order truly to realize the potential of ICT, we must first reinvent discourse{\textemdash}discarding the mantra of
 catching up{\textemdash}and set in motion efforts to address self-determined needs, supported by ICT.
},
	doi = {10.1007/0-387-34588-4_4},
	author = {Tu, Leslie and Lynette Kvasny}
}
@article {234,
	title = {Cores and Definitions: Building the Cognitive Legitimacy of the Information Systems Discipline Across the Atlantic},
	year = {2004},
	month = {2004},
	pages = {83 - 101},
	abstract = {The issue of the legitimacy of Information Systems is important for researchers in this field because other disciplines have begun to lay claim to research topics often thought to belong to the domain of IS research, and the field itself is under challenge in academic intuitions around the world (Avison 2002). Benbasat and Zmud{\textquoteright}s (2003) opinion is that IS has gained socio-political legitimacy but not cognitive legitimacy in large measure because the object of study in much IS research is not clearly delineated. In part, they are defining a disciplinary boundary issue and beginning to define criteria by which our field may be distinguished from reference disciplines or other related disciplines. Therefore, to gain more cognitive legitimacy, a clearer understanding of what we mean by {\textquotedblleft}an information system{\textquotedblright} and of the central issues driving its creation and use is needed if it is at the core of that which we study. This paper advances that discourse by examining the role of a handful of French scholars, many of whom are not well known out of French academic circles, but whose thoughts on the issue are useful in furthering the debate on the ontological grounding of our field.},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-8095-6_6},
	author = {Rowe, Frantz and Duane P. Truex and Lynette Kvasny}
}
@article {DBLP:conf/ifip8-2/KvasnyT02,
	title = {The Digital Divide at Work and Home: The Discourse about Power and Underrepresented Groups in the Information Society},
	year = {2002},
	pages = {273-291},
	author = {Lynette Kvasny and Eileen M. Trauth}
}
@article {DBLP:conf/ifip8-2/KaplanKST02,
	title = {New Words and Old Books: Challenging Conventional Discourses about Domain and Theory in Information Systems Research},
	year = {2002},
	pages = {539-545},
	author = {Bonnie Kaplan and Lynette Kvasny and Steve Sawyer and Eileen M. Trauth}
}
@article {DBLP:conf/ifip8-2/KvasnyT01,
	title = {Defining Away the Digital Divide: A Content Analysis of Institutional Influences on Popular Representations of Technology},
	year = {2001},
	pages = {399-414},
	author = {Lynette Kvasny and Duane P. Truex}
}
@article {DBLP:conf/ifip8-2/KvasnyT00,
	title = {Information Technology and the Cultural Reproduction of Social Order: A Research Paradigm},
	year = {2000},
	pages = {277-294},
	author = {Lynette Kvasny and Duane P. Truex}
}
