When information systems go political: a research approach for political IS discourse
提出一种名为批判性政治话语研究（CPDS）的新方法，用于更严谨地研究日益政治化的信息系统现象，并以欧盟AI法案中的伦理话语为例进行验证。
New generations of emerging technologies have challenged our understanding of the role of technology in society. Digital platforms shaped by artificial intelligence (AI) influence our everyday decisions and societal structures, making emerging technologies ever more political in nature. This has challenged information systems (IS) researchers to seek new approaches that enable more rigorous study of contemporary IS phenomena that are increasingly political. This paper presents a novel research approach called critical-political discourse studies (CPDS), which combines critical discourse studies and political discourse analysis to improve the rigour of studying political IS discourses. The approach is validated in an empirical analysis, which studies AI ethics discourse in the EU AI Act through the lens of John Rawls’s principles of justice. The potential of CPDS for IS research is analysed from perspectives of novelty and usefulness. The analyses demonstrate how CPDS increases transparency, coherence, and rigour of the study of political IS discourses, which brings a valuable contribution to the accumulation of knowledge on contemporary ISs and their socio-technical dimensions.