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Gardening: A metaphor for sustainability in information technology-technical support

  • Christiansen E
Springer US, (1997), 171-185
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-35327-2_16
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Abstract

Based on an empirical study of how technical support people work in a nonprofit research and consulting institute, the notion of gardening, first coined by Nardi, is unfolded as a metaphor for a sustainable way of making use of information technology (IT). Sustainability is defined as development characterized by optimal interaction in and between the resource systems and the economic and social systems.

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Christiansen, E. (1997). Gardening: A metaphor for sustainability in information technology-technical support. In An Ethical Global Information Society (pp. 171–185). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35327-2_16

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