[AISWorld] CFP: AMCIS 2010 Minitrack on “Information systems and society: Digital divide, e-skills and IT induced social inequality”

[Roman Brandtweiner]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
“Information systems and society: Digital divide, e-skills and IT induced social inequality”
Minitrack at 16th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2010) August 12-15 2010, Lima, Peru, http://www.amcis2010.org/
This minitrack is part of the "Social Issues in IS" track.
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Description:

During the last few decades countries everywhere around the globe have shown increasing growth in computer and internet usage as well as a raising use of modern telecommunication facilities. Nevertheless, we can observe a slow down in the rate of growth and a persistent number of people not using these new technologies. This is not only due to effects of saturation, but also to the so-called “digital divide” which addresses primarily inequalities in internet access and differences in usage skills regarding the so called “second order digital divide”. Considering the large number of public access places (especially in developed countries), access to the internet becomes at least hypothetically possible for almost everybody. Access alone does not guarantee the usage of internet. Literacy and social support play a vital role as research has already acknowledged. When considering the internet not only as an administrative tool but also as a new media, the concept of e-literacy has to be extended from mere technical skills and basic handling towards media competence in general. Therefore we want to invite especially researchers working on the relationship between digital divide and e-literacy in order to collect systematically current results on this issue. Besides contributions presenting theoretical approaches and methodological considerations, we are especially interested in papers reporting on concrete consequences of the digital divide on life chances and therefore inequalities in a society. Past experiences as well as new perspectives can be reported either from a scientific (empirical results) or a practitioner’s perspective (case studies, best practice models, lessons learned). Closely linked to the usage and non-usage of IS/IT are transformations of social and economic structures, appearance of new social inequalities (employability, income ect.), and general changes in the society due to the existence, use, and abandonment of IS/IT.
This mini track serves as a forum for the presentation and discussion of new and innovative interdisciplinary approaches of IS research for coping with current and future challenges of the discipline from a social science perspective. 
We invite work-in-progress or completed research that supports a better understanding of the impact of IS/IT on social as well as economic structures and the society in general.


The topics of this Mini Track include but are not limited to:

•Social, political and economic impact of IS/IT
•Computer literacy, media competence, and digital divide issues
•Technology acceptance and the digital divide in specific social groups and industries
•Theoretical approaches towards e-skills and measurement of e-skills (empirical studies and case studies, triangulation studies, Comparative studies)
•Best practice models of initiatives addressing e-skills
•E-Skills and employability
•E-skills, income and individual careers
•Staff members’ e-skills and its influence on productivity and efficiency of the company
•Secure usage through e-literacy
•Role of social and economic support on acquiring e-literacy
•Private vs. public learning (responsibility of governments and individuals) and relevance of e-learning
•Barriers & drivers for the broad adoption of IS/IT among citizens
•Models for IS/IT induced social/economic change and IS/IT induced transformation of social/economic structures
•The relationships of individuals, groups and communities and their technology induced transformation

Papers will be peer-reviewed using a double-blind system and will be considered for Best Paper Awards. 

Mini-track Chair(s):

Roman Brandtweiner
Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Department of Information Systems and Operations
Roman.Brandtweiner at wu.ac.at


Elisabeth Donat
University of Innsbruck, Austria
Department of Sociology
Elisabeth.Donat at uibk.ac.at


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Opens: January 4, 2010
Papers Due: March 01, 2010
Notification of Acceptance: April 12, 2010
Camera Ready Copy Due: April 26, 2010


INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION

Please submit final papers via Manuscript Central
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2010
For more details see http://www.amcis2010.org/



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