-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CFP: Special issue of Information Systems Frontiers on "Being (more) Human in a Digitized World" Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 23:00:28 +0530 From: Saji K Mathew sajiplusjolly@gmail.com To: AISWorld@lists.aisnet.org CC: mahesh@aisnet.org

Announcing a special issue of *Information Systems Frontiers* https://www.springer.com/business+%26+management/business+information+systems/journal/10796

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BEING (MORE) HUMAN IN A DIGITIZED WORLD

Everyday living in the digitized world is undergoing rapid change. In recent times the spread of mobile phones has greatly expanded access to basic telephony and internet based services. This has provided plenty of opportunities to individuals, families, corporations and governments to communicate and collaborate while on the move. The positive impact of technology such as ICT and digital platforms, in improving livelihood and reducing exploitation in certain areas of human life is addressed well in the information systems literature. For example, the impact of digital platforms in developing countries like mPesa in Kenya, eKutir in India, mFish in Indonesia, have been highlighted in recent academic research. Here, digital technologies play a critical role in bringing about financial inclusion, access to markets, access to healthcare and the empowerment of women and the marginalized in certain cultures and geographical regions.

While digitization has opened up such opportunities for uplifting human values, there has also been concerns about how living in the digital era results in invasion of rights to privacy, building of the surveillance nation (panopticon), shift of power to the digitally advantaged, creation of the digitally left-behind, ability to intrude into politics and democratic processes of countries and proliferation of rumours during extreme events. Many contemporary debates in information systems and technology are centred around ethical and social implications arising from the use of information technology devices, applications and platforms. The shifting discourse in the information systems literature demands greater attention to the reframing of human values (values that make human beings human and will make them more distinctly human), given the changing nature of the social fabric. The dualities and paradoxes that technology’s pervasiveness gives rise to, such as inclusion and exclusion; empowerment and dependence are yet unresolved and are likely to remain so.

This special issue aims to encourage both academic scholars and practitioners to share their research on the theme of social implications of information systems in an increasingly digitized world. We welcome research papers which could potentially contribute to the body of knowledge related to this theme especially in contexts such as politics, government, education, industry and not for profit organizations. We are interested in exploring the theme through the following topics, although this is not a restrictive list:

=> Social Implications of Information Systems => Digitally enabled Social Innovations => Digital Social In/Ex-clusion => Social Shaping of Technology => Politics in(of) a Digital Society => Social Affordances of Technology Platforms => Work Fragmentation and Digital Bricolage => Social Consequences of Telework => Consumption of the Digital => Human-Computer Interaction => Ungendering Technology Education and Use => Designing Technology that is more Human(e) => Technology for the non-user: the elderly, the marginalized and the differently abled => Information Technology for the Informal Sector

Author guidelines for submission of papers to ISF can be accessed at “Instructions for Authors” section of the journal website https://www.springer.com/business+%26+management/business+information+systems/journal/10796. Manuscripts must be submitted online at http://www.editorialmanager.com/isfi/ Please select “Special Issue: Being (more) human in a digitized world”.

*Timelines:* Submission deadline: March 1, 2019 Notification of first round reviews: June 1, 2019 Revised Manuscripts due: August 1, 2019 Notification of second round reviews: September 1, 2019 Final Version Due: October 1, 2019

*Guest Editors:* Priya Seetharaman, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, priyas@iimcal.ac.in Saji K Mathew, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, saji@iitm.ac.in Maung K. Sein, University of Agder, maung.k.sein@uia.no T. Ravindra Babu, Flipkart, ravindrababu.t@gmail.com

Link to the CFP for the Special Issue is also available on the ISF Journal Website https://static.springer.com/sgw/documents/1643843/application/pdf/attachment+1.pdf .

Best regards,

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Saji K Mathew, PhD Professor Department of Management Studies INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS Chennai, TN 600 036, INDIA

Email: saji@iitm.ac.in saji@iitm.ac.in Homepage: http://www.doms.iitm.ac.in/index.php/skm

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