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Acknowledgements. Conference Chairs. Program Committee. Additional Reviewers. 1. Placing Language in the Foreground: Themes and Methods in Information Technology Discourse; E.H. Wynn, et al. Part 1: Keynotes. 2. Talking the IS Innovation Walk; E. Burton Swanson. 3. Figuring Service in Discourses of ICT: The Case of Software Agents; L. Suchman. Part 2: Analytical Frameworks. 4. Transitioning Toward an Internet Culture: An Interorganizational Analysis of Identity Construction from Online Services to Intranets; R. Lamb, M. Poster. 5. Discourse on E-Mail in Use; M. Edenius. 6. When Does a Computer Speak the Truth? The Problem of IT and Validity Claims; B.C. Stahl. 7. Conceptualizing Information Technology in the Study of Information Systems: Trends and Issues; S. Sawyer, T.T. Chen. 8. A Research Note on Capturing Technology: Toward Moments of Interest; I. Hosein. 9. The Phenomenology of Information Systems Evaluation: Overcoming the Subject/Object Dualism; L.D. Introna, L. Whittaker. Part 3: Critical Research. 10. Organizational Discourse as a Social Defense: Taming the Tiger of Electronic Government; D.G. Wastell. 11. The Discourse of Learning Technology in Canada: Understanding Communication Distortions and Their Implications for Decision Making; W. Cukier, et al. Part 4: Mobilization of Power. 12. Rhetoric of Enrollment and Acts of Resistance: Information Technology as Text; M. Wilson. 13. The Discourse of a Large Scale Organizational Transformation: The Reengineering of IBM, 1989-1994; E. Monod, et al. 14. The Digital Divide at Work and Home: The Discourse about Power and Underrepresented Groups in the Information Society; L. Kvasny, E.M. Trauth. Part 5: IS Planning and Projects. 15. Arguing for Information Systems Project Definition; M. Metcalfe, M. Lynch. 16. The Nature and Role of Generative Systemic Metaphor Within Information Systems Planning and Development; C.J. Atkinson. Part 6: Globalization, Development, and Space. 17. ICT, Power, and Developmental Discour