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        <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFEDU</journal-id>
        <journal-title-group>
            <journal-title>Informatics in Education</journal-title>
        </journal-title-group>
        <issn pub-type="epub">1648-5831</issn>
        <issn pub-type="ppub">1648-5831</issn>
        <publisher>
            <publisher-name>VU</publisher-name>
        </publisher>
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                <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">INFE211</article-id>
                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15388/infedu.2012.08</article-id>
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                <subject>Article</subject>
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                        <title-group>
            <article-title>Teachers&#039; Interpretations of the Internet. An Applied Case Study for the Evaluation of Technological Frames of Reference</article-title>
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                                        <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                <name>
                    <surname>CAMILLERI</surname>
                    <given-names>Patrick</given-names>
                </name>
                                <email xlink:href="mailto:patrick.camilleri@um.edu.mt">patrick.camilleri@um.edu.mt</email>
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                        <aff id="j_INFEDU_aff_000">Centre for Educational Technology Research and Innovation, Department of Mathematics Science and Technical Education, Faculty of Education, The University of Malta Msida, Malta</aff>
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                                                                            <volume>11</volume>
                                <issue>2</issue>
                                    <fpage>151</fpage>
                        <lpage>167</lpage>
						<pub-date pub-type="epub">
                        <day>15</day>
                                    <month>10</month>
                        <year>2012</year>
        </pub-date>
                                                        <abstract>
                        <p>In 1994 Orlikowski and Gash articulated Technological Frames of Reference as a systematic theoretical lens to examine technological developments in organisations. A decade later, in 2004, Davidson and Pai expressed concern that while the lens was widely cited in academic discourse, the incidence and adoption of the model as an analytical framework for socio-cognitive analysis and interpretation of Information Technology in organisations was very low.</p>
                        <p></p>
                        <p>As Technology Frame Research becomes more meaningfully applicable with our ever increasing attachment towards technology, I present a case study with the aim of augmenting research in the field. By employing a qualitative methodological framework based on technological frames I evaluate interpretations on the Internet embraced within a group of teachers before the implementation of the technology on campus.</p>
                        <p></p>
                        <p>Emerging data suggests how appropriated traits and embedded inclinations towards a technology justify the predisposition of diverse interpretations by one person reminiscent to the context it is being articulated in.</p>
                    </abstract>
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            <label>Keywords</label>
                        <kwd>appropriation</kwd>
                        <kwd>contextualisation</kwd>
                        <kwd>enactment</kwd>
                        <kwd>internet</kwd>
                        <kwd>interpretations</kwd>
                        <kwd>organisations</kwd>
                        <kwd>socio-cognitive implications</kwd>
                        <kwd>technological frames of reference</kwd>
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