Call for papers - The 34th Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia – IRIS 2011

 

August 16th – 19th, 2011, Turku Finland

 

ICT of Culture – Culture of ICT

 

(In conjunction with the Second Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2010, http://2011.scandinavian-iris.org/)

 

As the oldest IS seminar in the world dating back to 1978 IRIS provides a well-established community where you can build and sustain your Nordic IS network. The seminar offers an informal atmosphere with a number of different activities such as workshops and keynote speeches. IRIS also offers thorough feedback on your work and deep insight into other researchers’ work through working groups where papers are presented and discussed. In addition, authors who submit a paper also act as reviewers in the review process. The premise in the IRIS series is, that all papers in a work group have been read by all participants in that working group, thus, using minimal time in the presentation of the papers, and maximal time in discussing the papers.

 

In order to attract more seniors the Second Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems (SCIS) is held in conjunction with IRIS. The two conferences are seen as a full package to stimulate the Nordic IS research community, and are held together, SCIS during the mornings, and IRIS during the afternoons. We thus strongly encourage senior researchers and junior researchers to take part in the full programme of the conferences.

 

IRIS is famous for its unreserved and egalitarian (= Nordic) atmosphere where it is easy to present and discuss your research. The structure of the conference is ideal for networking and collaboration – a good evidence of this is that many researchers meet in IRIS every year, and also that during the week the participants work on “unofficial” joint projects. The conference is not open only for researchers from the Nordic countries, we also welcome people from other parts of the world, bringing along and delivering views other than the Nordic ones into the discussion.

 

Theme

 

During the 21st century our society, culture and personal lives will be deeply influenced by advances in information and communication technology. Social media and social virtual worlds have already started transforming individuals from passive information consumers to active creators and distributors of information, knowledge and arts. We can already play with the idea that our technological capability will enable us to digitize everything that anyone has ever said and store it in Internet servers.

 

Issues of interest to our conference are among others:

How does all this affect our society and culture?

How should the media industry and other companies capitalize on the new empowered consumer?

How does this transformation change our concept of the welfare society?

What is the role of customer and partner communities?

How do we integrate information systems to face this very fast moving new “culture of ICT”?

How do we foster inter-organisational information systems evolution and improved supply of products and services?

Or is it just a new fad which will find its way to a normal evolution of ICT use, design and management?

 

This transformation will also affect our own IS profession. IT is not created in a vacuum or designed somewhere outside our society. The new applications of ICT are increasingly a product of the surrounding society and culture. Furthermore, the cultural context where the IS development takes place is becoming increasingly diverse. Implementation of applications and practices of their use takes place in groups that involve members from different national, organizational, and professional sub-cultures. The development is increasingly driven by professionals from other fields and even by consumers. How can we manage and take advantage of this cultural diversity in our development

teams? What are the challenges that different cultural backgrounds create in the teams that plan, design and implement new applications?

 

Tracks

 

To be announced based on submissions, as per usual with IRIS.

 

Paper submission

 

Papers are not to exceed 6000 words. Check the http://2011.scandinavian-iris.org/ on format and online submission.

 

Conference Venue

 

This Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia will be held in 16th – 19th of August 2011 in Turku, Finland, in conjunction with the traditional SCIS conference. The seminar will take place in the Ruissalo Spa (http://www.ruissalospa.fi) located on the beautiful island of Ruissalo.

 

Important Dates

 

April 1st, 2011: Submissions due

May 15th, 2011: Notification of acceptance for IRIS with editorial comments

June 20th, 2011: Submission of final versions

June 20th, 2011: Deadline for authors to register to the conference (with early bird fee)

August 16th-19th 2011: IRIS/ SCIS, Ruissalo, Turku, Finland

Under the auspices of the IRIS Association (http://iris.cs.aau.dk/index.php/welcome.48.html)

 

Main organizer

Turku School of Economics

University of Turku

 

Partners

Åbo Akademi University

Turku University of Applied Sciences

 

Looking forward to meet you all in Turku!

Reima Suomi                       Kai Kimppa

Conference Chair                  Program Chair

 

 

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Timo Lainema, PhD

Assistant Professor (Turku School of Economics / Inf. Syst. Science)

Adjunct Professor (Education / University of Turku)

Mobile: +358 (0)400 445 913

Email: timo.lainema@tse.fi