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Call for Papers: Special Issue "Technology for Humanity” at
Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE /
WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK)
The past decades have been marked by the rapid digitization of
almost every part of human life. Our work and private life,
healthcare, education, governmental institutions, and society as a
whole have been undergoing an era of rapid change driven by new
forms of digital communication, automation, new information
sources, emerging digital markets, and social networks, as well as
digital practices and workflows. With this transition that some
analysts refer to as a ‘digital transformation’ and some
intellectuals speculate to be a ‘2nd Neolithic revolution’, come
many ethical and value-related questions and challenges that are
of high relevance for humanity. At the core, we must ask ourselves
how we should technically and organizationally design and organize
our IT-driven world so that humans can flourish in it (Spiekermann
2016). How can we build “Technology for Humanity” as the IEEE
standardization organization promotes in its logo?
The pressing nature of these grand challenges demands a more
comprehensive understanding of the undergoing transformation
beyond the study of standalone values. In response, policymakers
have taken numerous initiatives, for example, at the international
level by announcing seventeen sustainable development goals and at
the local level by creating large-scale publicly-financed research
projects like the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society
in Berlin. In a similar vein, many BISE/IS institutes have woken
up on this call by establishing such important initiatives as the
Sustainability Lab at Vienna University of Economics and Business
or by jointly collaborating on research projects that seek to
address these issues. In addition to investigating privacy issues
and personal data markets (e.g., Spiekermann et al. 2015; Krasnova
et al. 2010; Trang et al. 2020), BISE /IS scholars have embarked
on studying the fundamental issues of human control, autonomy, and
freedom vis-à-vis technology (e.g., Spiekermann and Pallas 2005).
Among others, these research efforts have contributed to a better
understanding of potential biases inherent in AI design (e.g.,
Lambrecht and Tucker 2019; Bauer et al. 2020), algorithmic work
management (e.g., Möhlmann et al. 2021), echo chambers, and filter
bubbles (e.g., Kitchens et al. 2020), health and well-being
implications of ICT use in work (e.g., Benlian 2020) and social
media (e.g., Krasnova et al. 2015; Krause et al. 2021) contexts,
user perceptions in the context of online targeted political
advertising (e.g., Baum et al. 2021), among others. In doing so,
the grey human entity formerly called “user” has started to be
concretized in the many distinct roles created by new ICTs:
Patients are now studied in relation to health applications
(Mueller et al. 2018), citizens as natural participants of
e-government processes (e.g., Tan et al. 2013; Nishant et al.
2019), crowd-workers in the context of their algorithmic
supervisors (e.g., Straub et al. 2015; Cram et al. 2020), soc
ial networking users in the face of gamified platforms
intentionally designed to be addictive (e.g., Turel and Serenko
2012), life-loggers with a view to personal data markets (e.g.,
Risius et al. 2020; Trang et al. 2020), to name a few.
Against the background of these developments, we seek to elicit
papers in this area for the BISE Special Issue “Technology for
Humanity”. Submissions to this special issue are encouraged from
all theoretical and methodological perspectives. Thus, submissions
can either investigate people in their specific roles and
reactions to technology, relate to technology design or design
methods to foster humanity and sustainability, be of a conceptual
nature to better grasp the technological and economic changes we
are witnessing, or review user studies and/or technologies of
interest in this research domain. Authors must clearly outline why
their contribution is new and interesting for research and
practice and how they contribute to human and social value
creation through their work.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
Dignity and respect
Inequality
Freedom, liberty, transparency and autonomy
Privacy, trust, control and freedom
Friendship, social support and inclusion
Bias, fairness and transparency
Digital work, digital labor markets and the gig economy
Personal data markets
Digital society (e.g., fake news, online radicalization,
cyberbullying)
Physical health and mental well-being in the context of IT use
Individual behavior and perceptions
Moral behavior
Technology mediated human judgement
Value-based system design
Privacy sensitive design, privacy by design
Attention sensitive systems
Submission Guidelines
Please submit papers by 15 May 2022 at the latest via the
journal’s online submission system
(
http://www.editorialmanager.com/buis/
<http://www.editorialmanager.com/buis/>). Please observe the
instructions regarding the format and size of contributions to
Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE). Papers
should adhere to the submission general BISE author guidelines
(
https://www.bise-journal.com/author_guidelines
<https://www.bise-journal.com/author_guidelines>).
All papers will be reviewed anonymously (double-blind process) by
at least two referees with regard to relevance, originality, and
research quality. In addition to the editors of the journal,
including those of this special issue, distinguished international
scholars will be involved in the review process.
Schedule
Deadline for submission: 15 May 2022 Notification of the authors,
1st round: 1 August 2022
Completion Revision 1: 1 October 2022
Notification of the authors, 2nd round: 1 December 2022
Completion Revision 2: 15 January 2023
Online publication: ASAP
Anticipated print publication: October 2023
Editors of the Special Issue
Sarah Spiekermann-Hoff, Prof. Dr.
Institute for Information Systems & Society Vienna University
of Economics and Business (WU Vienna).
sspieker@wu.ac.at <mailto:sspieker@wu.ac.at>
Hanna Krasnova, Prof. Dr.
Professor for Information Systems, especially Social Media and
Society
University of Potsdam
krasnova@uni-potsdam.de <mailto:krasnova@uni-potsdam.de>
Oliver Hinz, Prof. Dr.
Professor of Information Systems and Information Management
Goethe University Frankfurt
ohinz@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de
<mailto:ohinz@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de>
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