-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] III 2012 - Innovation in Information Infrastructures Workshop Datum: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:25:01 +0100 Von: Gian Marco Campagnolo g.campagnolo@ed.ac.uk An: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org
Call for papers
III 2012 - Innovation in Information Infrastructures Workshop 9th - 11th October 2012
The University of Edinburgh Business School 29 Buccleuch Place Edinburgh, UK
Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Eric Monteiro - NTNU Steve Sawyer - Syracuse University David Ribes - Georgetown University Geoff Walsham - University of Cambridge
Submission: If you wish to present a paper at the III 2012 workshop submit a short paper (3 to 4 pages). Please submit them as email attachments (Microsoft Word files only) to this email address - i.i.i@ed.ac.uk - indicating in the e-mail subject the title of the workshop: III2012
Rationale: This workshop will focus on the emergence and continuing evolution of new kinds of information infrastructures (IIs) in business, the corporate world and other settings. By connecting a growing number of systems and data, Information Infrastructures support user work in everyday life, but also bring about increased organizational and technological complexity. As IIs permeate an increasingly broad range of social and institutional contexts, they generate both new kinds of challenges for information systems development, and new social, organizational and market forms as foci for social study.
This is the second Edinburgh workshop on IIs in recent years. The first, in 2006, explored what were then emerging visions of the future1. Some of the computing models set out have subsequently failed to materialise as expected, whilst others not predicted have come into being. Today, we find that the ecology of players, services, software and platforms enabled by network connectivity and modern tools is increasingly complex. Information infrastructure standards and patterns of usage have been established, legitimating a growing set of user strategies, social competences and forms of expertise. In this workshop we ask how information infrastructures and related social, organizational and market forms innovate.
Themes:
The workshop will bring together researchers to share empirical studies, analytical approaches and methodological concerns in the understanding of Information Infrastructures innovation, and to explore what the future holds for research in this area. We invite papers on the following themes:
Emerging Information Infrastructures
- Social media applications that enable the sharing and collation of information between peers and across multiple sites - The further integration and expansion of corporate enterprise systems (e.g. ERP, CRM) - Patient health record infrastructures that connect up various health providers - New models for the provision of computing services (such as Software-as-a-Service and Cloud Computing) - The Internet of Things - Data analytics - New platforms that seek to leverage the time/expertise of globally distributed communities of developers (e.g. FLOSS, the Apple App store).
Analytical approaches
- The Social Shaping of Technology and its extension into the Biography of Artefacts perspective - Socio-material understandings of Information Infrastructures - Approaches influenced by ethnomethodology and micro-sociology - Science and Technology Studies approaches - Approaches which appreciate the “long now” and multi-sitedness of Information Infrastructures
Methodological concerns
- Adequacy of conventional methodologies for understanding the scale, scope and evolution of II - Questions of fieldwork focus when researching information infrastructures
Important Dates: Deadline for submission of short paper: 30 June 2012 Decision of abstract acceptance: 22 July 2012 Final program available: 25 September 2012
Selected papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of an international rated peer reviewed journal.
Submission and Registration Guidelines can be found on the University of Edinburgh Business School Website: http://www.business-school.ed.ac.uk/about/school-events?a=44968
Executive Committee: G. Haywood, H. Mozaffar, A. Eshraghi, V. Wiegel
Scientific Committee: R. Williams, N. Pollock, S. Anderson, M. Hartswoood, G.M. Campagnolo, I. Graham
--- Gian Marco Campagnolo Lecturer Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation School of Social& Political Science The University of Edinburgh High School Yards Edinburgh EH1 1LZ Tel: +44-131-651-4273 Mobile: +44-(0)7551-231-719 email:g.campagnolo@ed.ac.uk Skype: gianmarco.campagnolo web: http://campagnolo-soc.blogspot.com