[AISWorld] III 2012 - Innovation in Information Infrastructures Workshop

[Gian Marco Campagnolo]

Call for papers

III 2012 - Innovation in Information Infrastructures Workshop
9th - 11th October 2012

The University of Edinburgh Business School
29 Buccleuch Place
Edinburgh, UK

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Eric Monteiro - NTNU
Steve Sawyer - Syracuse University
David Ribes - Georgetown University
Geoff Walsham - University of Cambridge

Submission:
If you wish to present a paper at the III 2012 workshop submit a short
paper (3 to 4 pages). Please submit them as email attachments
(Microsoft Word files only) to this email address - i.i.i at ed.ac.uk -
indicating in the e-mail subject the title of the workshop: III2012

Rationale:
This workshop will focus on the emergence and continuing evolution of new kinds of information infrastructures (IIs) in business, the corporate world and other settings. By connecting a growing number of systems and data, Information Infrastructures support user work in everyday life, but also bring about increased organizational and technological complexity. As IIs permeate an increasingly broad range of social and institutional contexts, they generate both new kinds of challenges for information systems development, and new social, organizational and market forms as foci for social study.

This is the second Edinburgh workshop on IIs in recent years. The first, in 2006, explored what were then emerging visions of the future1. Some of the computing models set out have subsequently failed to materialise as expected, whilst others not predicted have come into being. Today, we find that the ecology of players, services, software and platforms enabled by network connectivity and modern tools is increasingly complex. Information infrastructure standards and patterns of usage have been established, legitimating a growing set of user strategies, social competences and forms of expertise. In this workshop we ask how information infrastructures and related social, organizational and market forms innovate.

Themes:

The workshop will bring together researchers to share empirical studies, analytical approaches and methodological concerns in the understanding of Information Infrastructures innovation, and to explore what the future holds for research in this area. We invite papers on the following themes:

Emerging Information Infrastructures

- Social media applications that enable the sharing and collation of information between peers and across multiple sites
- The further integration and expansion of corporate enterprise systems (e.g. ERP, CRM)
- Patient health record infrastructures that connect up various health providers
- New models for the provision of computing services (such as Software-as-a-Service and Cloud Computing)
- The Internet of Things
- Data analytics
- New platforms that seek to leverage the time/expertise of globally distributed communities of developers (e.g. FLOSS, the Apple App store).

Analytical approaches

- The Social Shaping of Technology and its extension into the Biography of Artefacts perspective 
- Socio-material understandings of Information Infrastructures
- Approaches influenced by ethnomethodology and micro-sociology
- Science and Technology Studies approaches
- Approaches which appreciate the “long now” and multi-sitedness of Information Infrastructures 

Methodological concerns

- Adequacy of conventional methodologies for understanding the scale, scope and evolution of II
- Questions of fieldwork focus when researching information infrastructures

Important Dates:
Deadline for submission of short paper: 30 June 2012
Decision of abstract acceptance: 22 July 2012
Final program available: 25 September 2012

Selected papers will be considered for publication in a special issue
of an international rated peer reviewed journal.

Submission and Registration Guidelines can be found on the University
of Edinburgh Business School Website:
http://www.business-school.ed.ac.uk/about/school-events?a=44968

Executive Committee:
G. Haywood, H. Mozaffar, A. Eshraghi, V. Wiegel

Scientific Committee:
R. Williams, N. Pollock, S. Anderson, M. Hartswoood, G.M. Campagnolo, I. Graham

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Gian Marco Campagnolo
Lecturer
Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation
School of Social & Political Science
The University of Edinburgh
High School Yards
Edinburgh EH1 1LZ
Tel: +44-131-651-4273
Mobile: +44-(0)7551-231-719
email:g.campagnolo at ed.ac.uk
Skype: gianmarco.campagnolo
web: http://campagnolo-soc.blogspot.com


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