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Organisational Semiotics: Informatics without the Computer?

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Information, Organisation and Technology

Part of the book series: Information and Organisation Design Series ((INOD,volume 1))

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Back in 1976 I wrote a paper entitled “Informatics without the Computer” as a result of working in the developing world (Stamper 1976). At the time, I mistakenly thought that my message was less important for the highly developed economies. But now we are all suffering from a surfeit of the technology without high quality information. Without good wine, what’s the point of all the bottles with pretty labels?

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  1. School of Computing, Staffordshire University, Beaconside, Stafford, ST18 0DG, UK

    Kecheng Liu

  2. Department of Information Systems, University of Wollongong, Northfields Avenue, North Wollongong, NSW, Australia

    Rodney J. Clarke

  3. Center for Human Computer Interaction Department of Information and Media Science, University of Aarhus, Åbogade 34, DK-8200, Aarhus N, Denmark

    Peter Bøgh Andersen

  4. MEASUR Ltd, London, UK

    Ronald K. Stamper

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Stamper, R.K. (2001). Organisational Semiotics: Informatics without the Computer?. In: Liu, K., Clarke, R.J., Andersen, P.B., Stamper, R.K. (eds) Information, Organisation and Technology. Information and Organisation Design Series, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1655-2_5

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