[AISWorld] CFP: AMCIS 2014 Socio-Technical Aspects of Information Systems Minitrack

[Laurence Brooks]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Savanah, Georgia, USA
August 7-10, 2014.
(http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/)

Track: IS Philosophy (SIGPhilosophy)

MiniTrack: Socio-Technical Aspects of Information Systems There is growing acceptance that IS it is not solely about the technical issues which are the major factor in their successful development and use, but the other relevant (non-technical) human and social factors. These combine with technologies to create the informated contexts in which IS are developed and operate; effectively or otherwise. Within the IS field the 'socio-technical' movement (Mumford, {1995, 2003}) can be seen to provide insights into this complex relationship between the technological artefact and the social aspects in which they are situated (Avgerou et. al., 2004). In this, these technologies and their functionality may be seen to combine with humans and their actions to constitute informated 'socio-technical ensemble' (Bijker and Law 1995) that exhibit a concerted agency. How such ensembles may be effectively created, maintained and changed - locally and globally- incrementally and radically - is the subject of this mini-track.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
*             Social informatics
*             The application of social theory to information systems (eg. Structuration Theory, Actor-Network Theory, StructurANTion Theory)
*             Human and organisational aspects of information systems
*             Balancing of social and technical factors in information systems development and information systems
*             Critiques of the socio-technical approach
*             Case studies of socio-technical analysis of information systems
*             Sociomateriality and its implications for our understanding of information systems
*             Comparative studies (ie. between sectors, countries, cultures, etc.) of socio-technical analyses of information systems
*             Comparative analyses of socio-technical change and information systems
*             Global/local (or 'glocal') balance of information systems within a socio-technical context

Instructions for Authors.

To submit a paper, please follow the directions at
http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers

Submission:
Please follow the instructions given at
http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers

Important dates:
March 1, 2014: (11:59 PM EST): Deadline for paper submissions
April 4 2014: Authors will be notified of acceptances on or about this date
April 18, 2014: Authors revisions due
April 25, 2014: (11:59 PM EST): For accepted papers, camera ready copy due
August 7-10, 2014: AMCIS Conference

Minitrack Chair(s):

Laurence Brooks
Brunel University, UK
Laurence.Brooks at brunel.ac.uk

David Wainwright
Northumbria University, UK
david.wainwright at northumbria.ac.uk
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