Placing Language in the Foreground: Themes and Methods in Information Technology Discourse

We are pleased to bring you this volume of papers prepared for the IFIP Working Group 8.2 Conference held in Barcelona in December 2002. The subject of organizational discourse about information technology, and its counterpart, the discussion of technology as part of globalization, have been constant themes in Information Systems (IS) and within IFIP Working Group 8.2 for many years. However, this is the first time that discourse has been the explicit focus of an IFIP Working Group 8.2 conference, and only the second or third time that discourse has been the focus of a conference about Information Systems.