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HICSS-56 2023 Mini-track
Informing Research: Engaging with Futures (Organizational Systems
and Technology track)
The "Informing Research: Engaging with Futures" mini-track invites
submissions which explore future and possible worlds rather than
being rooted in analysis of what is or has been. We are looking
for contributions that break with well-trodden empirical and
conceptual conventions to help academia build a novel set of
concepts and instruments to generate useful theory for shaping
digital future(s).
For us, this objective is soundly anchored in the Information
Systems discipline's increasing interest in the process and
implications of global, societal, economic, and individual
digitalization. We particularly think of this challenge as one
where analyses and extrapolation from the present fails to provide
meaningful insights beyond projecting that status quo into the
future, albeit in a more technicized version of itself. Rather, we
seek ways for science to become more insightful, informative, and
instructive to active shapers of post-digital life worlds- or even
to become an active shaper itself.
Exciting submissions will approach the challenge we are presenting
by making either a theoretical contribution or a methodological
one. In the former, we are looking for advances in the role and
development of forward-looking theory in IS research and encourage
research that rethinks the processes of theory formulation, theory
replacement, or theory envisioning. The latter will contribute to
a collective effort to build methods for engaging with future and
possible worlds. Current future-studies approaches (e.g.,
scenarios; technology foresight) could be extended into new
realms. Of particular interest are papers which present
speculative or creative processes to address questions regarding,
for example, specific methodological setups of studies engaging
with post-digital futures, the meaning and evolution of scholarly
quality criteria (e.g., rigor or validity), or ways of engaging
those with a stake in the future. Papers which use the future as a
site of inquiry to inform present re
search and action have a great potential of being considered for
our mini-track's intended program.
We continue our mini-track's mission to challenge scholars to
focus attention on "new phenomena, disclose new perspectives on
phenomena, and illuminate new research agendas and programs"
against the background of, and pushing past existing theorization
and methods. We encourage interested contributors to review the
mini-track's calls for papers from previous years to further
illuminate the thinking which will guide our review and editorial
decision processes.
Prospective authors are advised that the track does not look for
topical contributions which are best submitted to one of the
conference's other (mini-)tracks. Papers in this mini-track must
explicitly provide the basis for more speculative future-leaning
conceptualizations of phenomenon or provide insight on how to
provide such concepts.
The deadline for submission of full manuscripts: June 15, 2022
For further conference details, schedules and submission
guidelines please see:
http://www.hicss.org/
We hope to see you on Maui in January 2023!
Mahalo!
Mini-track Co-Chairs:
Dirk S. Hovorka
Professor of Systems and Design
University of Sydney Business School
University of Sydney
New South Wales, AU
dirk.hovorka@sydney.edu.au<mailto:dirk.hovorka@sydney.edu.au>
Benjamin Mueller
Professor for Digital Business
University of Bremen, Germany
Current:
benjamin.mueller@unil.ch<mailto:benjamin.mueller@unil.ch>
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Dirk S. Hovorka
Professor of Systems and Design
University of Sydney
NSW, 2006 AU
T +61 2 9351 2949
Senior Editor/Research Perspectives (JAIS)
2018 BGS Professor of the Year
http://sydney.edu.au/business/staff/dirk.hovorka
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