lens

'Lens' (interpretive research)
A lens, or "way of viewing" is one of the "principles of interpretive research", as outlined by Wanda Orlikowski (2000), in which "certain features are focused on and emerge, and where the rest in the picture fall into the background," (Cordella & Shaikh, 2006, forthcoming, ontology or lens sect.). Use the word lens, in this sense, is consistent with the 'principle of contextualisation', as described by Klein and Myers (1999) (Cordella & Shaikh, 2006, forthcoming).