[AISWorld] Call for Papers: Information Systems Journal Special Issue on “The Dark Side of Information Technology Use”

[Tarafdar, Monideepa]

Call for Papers: Information Systems Journal Special Issue on “The Dark Side of Information Technology Use”



Manuscript submission deadline: November 30, 2013

Initial proposal submission deadline (optional): April 30, 2013



Guest Editors:

Monideepa Tarafdar, University of Toledo (monideepa.t at gmail.com<mailto:monideepa.t at gmail.com>)

Ashish Gupta, University of Tennessee Chattanooga (gupta at utc.edu<mailto:gupta at utc.edu> )

Ofir Turel, California State University Fullerton (oturel at exchange.fullerton.edu<mailto:oturel at exchange.fullerton.edu>)

Special Issue Coordinating Editor-in-chief (ISJ):
Robert Davison (isrobert at cityu.edu.hk<mailto:isrobert at cityu.edu.hk>)

Emerging research and practice commentary is beginning to focus on complex and often alarming ways in which use of IT affects organizational and social life. As IT potentially permeates all aspects of human activity, IT-enabled patterns of work and collaboration reveal two key themes: that of quick and easy information access and flexible work patterns versus addiction, misuse, overuse, overload and stressful use brought on by IT usage. These, and many other negative aspects of IT use are important areas for the research community to attend to, given that the ubiquitous and functionally pervasive nature of IT is expected to expose users to ever greater levels of conditions that are potent for experiencing harmful outcomes. What we are seeing is a set of complex social and individual situations where the benefits that use of IT brings contain the seeds of potentially transformative changes in ways of working, collaborating and living - changes that can lead to non-beneficial, if unintended consequences.

This Special Issue of the Information Systems Journal focuses on these ‘dark’ effects of IT use. Its objective is to highlight relevant and rigorous research that examines ambivalent and complex processes of IT use that result in detrimental and damaging impacts. Broadly, we seek research that develops and/or applies theory for the problem(s) under investigation, and/or identifies IT and IT management tools as solutions. The full call for papers is available at the ISJ website:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1111/%28ISSN%291365-2575/asset/homepages/SI_CFP_DarkSide_ISJ_1_.pdf?v=1&s=aa6c4fb38a330b28d714c86a46b48ff49843d1b6 .




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