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Facebook buys WhatsApp – Business as Usual

by David Kreps · February 21, 2014

David published an article, in February 2014, in The Conversation, in response to the purchase, by Facebook, of the instant messenger, WhatsApp. The full article is here. The article was also posted on the Salford Business School Blog, and generated an interesting response from a postgraduate student, to which David then also posted a reply.

By David Kreps

"This book questions the nature of the business and social information systems so ubiquitous in contemporary life. Linking positivism, individualism, and market-fundamentalist economics at the root of these systems, it critiques the philosophical ground of this triumvirate as fundamentally against nature. Connecting counter-philosophies of the subject as a natural part of existence, with more collectivist and ecological economics, it presents a historical critique of the development of the academic field of information systems and offers a complex view of the nature of Nature through which we might reshape our approach to technology and to our economies to overcome the existential threat of climate change. As such, it will appeal to philosophers, social theorists, and scholars of science and technology studies with interests in the environment and ecology, as well as those working in the field of information systems."

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