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Sharrock and Button ... and Much Ado about Nothing

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The paper discusses Sharrock's and Button's criticism of our attempt to use Habermas' communicative action theory to analyze group work platforms. We demonstrate that they misconstrue our goals of the paper, misinterpret our analysis of Habermas' action types, and misunderstand the concept of critical science. At the end we question the usefulness of these types of debates in furthering CSCW research.

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  1. Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Jyväskylä, SF-40 100, Finland

    Kalle Lyytinen

  2. Department of Information Systems, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA, and

    Ojelanki Ngwenyama

  3. Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, DK-9220, Aalborg, Denmark

    Ojelanki Ngwenyama

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Lyytinen, K., Ngwenyama, O. Sharrock and Button ... and Much Ado about Nothing. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 8, 285–293 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008720609782

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