[AISWorld] Call for Papers -- MIS Quarterly -- Special Issue on Information Systems for Symbolic Action: Social Media and Beyond

[Jan DeGross]

Call for Papers: MIS Quarterly Special Issue on Information Systems for 
Symbolic Action: Social Media and Beyond

Submission Deadline: February 1, 2012

Guest Editors: Mark Aakhus, Rutgers University (aakhus at rutgers.edu)
Pär J. Ågerfalk, Uppsala University (par.agerfalk at im.uu.se)
Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve University (kalle at po.cwru.edu)
Dov Te'eni, Tel Aviv University (teeni at tau.ac.il)

This special issue aims to foster Information Systems research in 
understanding, illustrating, and explaining how IS forms an inherent 
aspect of human activity and a means of symbolic action. We invite 
submissions that advance IS theory and research on the intersection of 
information systems and symbolic action through theoretical review, 
analysis, and development, empirical and design studies, or large-scale 
empirics and methodology development. Central issues to be tackled 
revolve around novel conceptualizations of IS, uses and design of IS, 
and methods for investigating IS as grounds, means, and outcomes of 
symbolic action.

Potential authors that would appreciate early feedback regarding the 
suitability of their material to the special issue are encouraged to 
submit a research-in-progress version of their manuscript to a 
developmental workshop that will be organized in conjunction with ICIS 
2011. (Potential authors may also send inquiries to the editors that 
include extended abstracts for advice about relevance to the special 
issue.) The plan is to invite authors of papers that pass the first 
round of review to a second developmental workshop in conjunction with 
ECIS 2012. These workshops are not mandatory but are strongly encouraged 
as they aim to support authors in preparing and developing their 
manuscripts. Both workshops will be hosted by the AIS Special Interest 
Group on Pragmatist IS Research (SIGPrag). More information about these 
events will be announced at http://www.sigprag.org/.

Submission deadline for the ICIS 2011 workshop is August 1, 2011.

The full call for papers is available on the MIS Quarterly’s web site at 
http://www.misq.org/.