[AISWorld] CFP: AMCIS 2010 Minitrack on "Social philosophy, ethics and information technology”

[Roman Brandtweiner]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
"Social philosophy, ethics and information technology”
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 "Philosophical Perspectives in IS" track.
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Description:

The intensive use of IS/IT all over the world and the extensive growth of the internet within the last decade has changed the life of the vast majority of the worlds population. The advantages of these new technologies have improved our lives significantly but despite of all these improvements disadvantages and dangers of the new information and communication technologies (ICTs) have risen. Therefore we want to look at these developments from a Social Philosophy perspective. Social Philosophy attempts to understand and explain the developments, changes, patterns, and tendencies of societies. As it is a wide field with many sub disciplines we want to draw special attention on ethics in conjunction with the use, application, and development of ICTs. Additionally we encourage submissions dealing with other aspects of social philosophy, e.g. applying thoughts of Weber, Durkheim, Adorno, Habermas, Beauvoir, Chomsky and other social theorists in the IS field.
ICTs have had major effects on society, economy, and businesses not only in the fields of management, organization and leadership. The areas of moral and ethics have been severely influenced too. Observing the recent development of ICTs and the growing capability of storing huge amounts of personal data and business related data online has created new moral problems and has increased the risk of negative consequences of unethical use of information technology. Due to the enormous growth of internet usage and the increasing reliance of private persons and business on information systems in all aspects of social and economic life, the ethical and moral aspects of what is done with or to and what could be theoretically done with or to the available information becomes a major concern of society.

The purpose of this Mini Track is to provide a forum for discussing ethical, philosophical, and social issues associated with the development and application of Information Systems and Communication Technology. We invite work-in-progress or completed research. Papers using theoretical approaches as well as empirical research (qualitative and quantitative) and case studies are welcome.

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

•Contribution of Social Philosophy to the explanation of technology induced social and economic changes
•Can “old” theories explain the new social patterns, developments, and tendencies of the 21st century?
•Do the new technologies have any effects on gender issues?
•Do the new technologies facilitate (positive and/or negative) discrimination of deprived groups in societies?
•Internet crime and computer crime in general
•Privacy issues
•Ethical and social aspects of the IT induced changes in employer-employee relationships (e.g. tension between an employee’s right to privacy and an employer’s need for information to run the business)
•Ethical and social aspects of ownership of knowledge and information
•Ethical and social aspects of intellectual property rights
•Ethical and social aspects of pricing of information, knowledge and digital goods (Are information and knowledge public goods?)
•Ethics for IS/IT and Internet professionals
•Ethics for IS/IT and Internet users
•Can Social Philosophy serve as (meta)theoretical basis of IS design and software development?
•Can Social Philosophy explain the standing of Information Systems as an academic discipline within the academic community and the society in general?
•Analyzing Information Systems as an academic discipline from the perspective of Social Philosophy


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-wien.ac.at
*primary contact

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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