-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] New AMCIS minitrack - The Controversial Information Technologies Datum: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 13:27:04 -0500 Von: Isaac Vaghefi svaghefi@binghamton.edu An: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org
Controversial Information Technologies (CIT) such as smartphones, social media, videogames, and cloud computing are perceived as having the potential to both benefit and damage the well-being of the user. On one hand, CIT use can benefit users, organizations, and the society by improving productivity, performance, and satisfaction. On the other hand, CIT use can also result in negative and often unplanned outcomes, rendering them a double-edged sword. CIT includes a wide range of information systems that we use today; some examples include social networking sites that can be both beneficial and harmful for the user, emails that despite their flexibility and connectivity benefits can also be interruptive for the work, and algorithmic and biometrics systems that despite their benefits toward productivity, can be source of concerns given the amount and type of information they collect from users. While nominal IT use have received extensive attention in IS research, CIT adoption, use, and consequences have been largely ignored. This mini-track provides a forum for the exchange of research ideas to shed light on issues related to CIT’s adoption and use, various behaviors users may exhibit when using CIT, and consequences of using CIT for individuals and organizations.
Isaac Vaghefi, svaghefi@binghamton.edu Hamed Qahri-Saremi, hqahrisa@depaul.edu Shamel Addas, shamel.addas@queensu.ca
The minitrack submission is due at the end of Feb 18. _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld@lists.aisnet.org