[AISWorld] AISWorld Digest, Vol 857, Issue 1

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>    1. Lecturer Positions at UNSW Australia (Patrick Finnegan)
>    2. Call for Minitrack Proposals: AMCIS 2015 Track on Adoption
>       and Diffusion of Information Technology (by SIGADIT) (Heshan Sun)
>    3. CfP ECIS2015 Conference theme track "The Networked        Society"
>       (Prof. Dr. Stefan Klein)
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> Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 05:24:07 +0000
> From: Patrick Finnegan <p.finnegan at unsw.edu.au>
> To: "aisworld at lists.aisnet.org" <aisworld at lists.aisnet.org>
> Subject: [AISWorld] Lecturer Positions at UNSW Australia
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> UNSW Australia is seeking to appoint two Lecturers in Information Systems
> and a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Business Analytics and Operations
> Management.
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> Further details on the positions in Information Systems are available at:
> http://www.jobs.unsw.edu.au/lecturer-2-positions
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> Further details on the position in Business Analytics and Operations
> Management are available at:
> http://www.jobs.unsw.edu.au/lecturersenior-lecturer-1
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> The UNSW Business School is Australia's leading business school with a
> reputation built on outstanding staff, students and alumni who have a
> cultural diversity that ensures an international focus.  UNSW Business
> School offers a complete range of business degree programs at
> undergraduate, postgraduate coursework levels in addition to higher
> research degree programs, MBA and Executive development programs. With
> more than 50,000 students from over 120 countries, UNSW is one of
> Australia?s most cosmopolitan universities. The main UNSW campus is
> located on a 38-hectare site at Kensington, seven kilometres from the
> centre of Sydney.
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> These are 5 year convertible, tenure track, full time positions. At the
> expiry of this period, the position may be converted to continuing
> employment, subject to satisfactory performance.
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> Professor P Finnegan | Head of School | Information Systems Technology and
> Management
> UNSW Business School | UNSW Australia
> Level 2, West Wing | Quadrangle Building | Sydney, NSW 2052
> Telephone: +61 (2) 9385 4449 | Fax Telephone: +61 (2) 9662 4061 | Web:
> www.asb.unsw.edu.au
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> Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 12:44:25 +0000
> From: Heshan Sun <sunh at clemson.edu>
> To: "AISWorld at lists.aisnet.org" <aisworld at lists.aisnet.org>
> Subject: [AISWorld] Call for Minitrack Proposals: AMCIS 2015 Track on
>         Adoption and Diffusion of Information Technology (by SIGADIT)
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> Call For Minitrack Proposals
> 2015 Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS,
> http://amcis2015.aisnet.org), August 13-15, 2015, Puerto Rico.
> Track: Adoption and Diffusion of Information Technology (SIGADIT)
> Along with the advances in information technology, adoption and diffusion
> of information technology continues to be a valuable topic. In the new
> technological environments such as the quick spread of cloud computing and
> Big Data, researchers who study adoption and diffusion of IT need to take
> new paths to conduct ?blue ocean? research in this area. In terms of
> methodologies, using mixed and novel methods for collecting (i.e. surveys,
> experiments, simulations, mixed methods) and analyzing data (latent growth
> models, event studies, agent based modeling, multi-level analysis, diary
> studies, data- and text- mining) can provide a significant step forward.
> Hence, we call for scholarly effort investigating adoption and diffusion of
> IT with new theoretical perspectives and novel empirical and/or analytical
> methodologies providing new insights and limiting bias to achieve a more
> holistic understanding about why and how people use IT.
> To deeper our understanding of the important issues of adoption and
> diffusion of information technology, AIS Special Interest Group in Adoption
> and Diffusion of Information Technology (http://www.sigadit.net) is
> hosting a track on adoption and diffusion of information technology at
> AMCIS 2015. More details about this track can be found at:
> http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/call-for-minitrack-proposals/track-descriptions
> We are calling for minitrack proposals to this track. As minitrack chairs,
> you will be responsible for
> a) promoting your minitrack to generate manuscript submissions to your
> minitrack.
> b) recruiting and assigning reviewers for manuscripts submitted to the
> minitrack; and
> c) making recommendations to track chairs about each manuscript submitted
> to your minitrack.
> To submit a minitrack proposal, you must submit
> a) minitrack chair(s) (names, emails, affiliation);
> b) minitrack title;
> c) a short description of minitrack for the AMCIS 2015 website (up to 150
> words);
> d) a call for papers for your minitrack; and
> e) a short rationale as to why your minitrack should be included in the
> track. (please relate your minitrack proposal to the track description.)
> To submit a minitrack proposal, send an email with your proposal as an
> attachment to the track co-chairs: Heshan Sun (sunh at clemson.edu<mailto:
> sunh at clemson.edu>) and Andreas Eckhardt (eckhardt at wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de
> <mailto:eckhardt at wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de>), and at the same time cc your
> email to AMCIS2015prog at ucf.edu<mailto:AMCIS2015prog at ucf.edu>
> Important dates:
> - September 29, 2014: All Minitrack proposals due
> - October 13, 2014: Minitrack decisions from track co-chairs due
> - January 5, 2015: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2015 begin
> - February 25, 2015: AMCIS manuscript submissions closes for authors
> Track Co-Chairs:
> Heshan Sun, Clemson University, sunh at clemson.edu<mailto:sunh at clemson.edu>
> Andreas Eckhardt, Goethe-University Frankfurt,
> eckhardt at wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de<mailto:eckhardt at wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de>
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> Sincerely,
> Heshan and Andreas
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> SIGADIT:
> Website: www.sigadit.net<http://www.sigadit.net>
> Join our LinedIn Discussion Group:
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> Best regards.
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> Heshan
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> Heshan Sun
> Associate Editor, MIS Quarterly
> Assistant Professor
> Management Department
> College of Business and Behavioral Science
> Clemson University
> Sirrine 107
> Clemson Univeresity
> Clemson, SC 29631
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> From: "Prof. Dr. Stefan Klein" <klein at wi.uni-muenster.de>
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> Subject: [AISWorld] CfP ECIS2015 Conference theme track "The Networked
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> The term 'Networked Society' is one that has now gained common currency in
> both academic and popular discourse. As a concept, it depicts, and
> promotes, a vision of a society that is thoroughly permeated by information
> and communication infrastructures, which are seen as being deeply
> implicated in (re-)shaping the practices and structures that are
> constitutive of all facets of social life.  The emphasis, then, is on the
> emergence new modes of 'connectedness', and associated economic, political,
> and social/cultural transformations (Castells & Cardoso, 2005; Castells,
> 2004).
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> A notable feature of much of the 'Network Society' discourse, however, is
> the predominance of very benign, or utopian, visions of the future.
> Technology companies1 and social commentators, for example, have
> enthusiastically embraced the concept as a means of emphasising the rich
> opportunities for all in a connected world.  In a nutshell, the assumption
> is that 'connections will engender opportunities', with implicit promises
> of a progressive march towards the digital 'Good Life' of a more
> prosperous, stimulating, and benevolent society.
>
> Of course, there is much to be admired and lauded in such visions.  The
> promise of new, technology-enabled, forms of social organisation has been
> persuasively made by authors who have focused upon the prospects of, inter
> alia, increased civic engagement and participation, new modes of social
> production (Benkler, 2006), and the use ICT for accelerating
> social/economic development in some of the most deprived regions of the
> world.
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> Yet, there are also a growing number of more critical voices, which have
> drawn attention to the darker sides of visions for a 'Network Society'.
> Concerns have been raised about a range of issues, including, for instance:
> the prospects of increasing levels of surveillance and intrusions on
> personal privacy, risks associated with outcomes of flawed megaprojects,
> and the dangers of an increasing polarisation of society.  These
> alternative visions are often no less compelling, and demand serious
> attention too.
>
> The aim of this track, therefore, is to clarify and enrich (competing)
> visions of a Networked Society, by inviting contributions to a critical
> discourse about the role of technology and its associated social
> implications.  As the Networked Society is a broad and inclusive concept,
> we welcome contributions that focus specifically on relevant facets of the
> debate (such as privacy or the Digital Divide, for example), as long as
> they are situated against the broader backdrop of the track theme.
>
> Types of Contributions
> The track seeks original contributions that reflect the concept of the
> networked society, its role in the political and economic discourse,
> related utopias and dystopias and how it makes the role of information and
> communication infrastructures intelligible.
>
> Suggested topics are:
> - Reflections on the notion of the networked society: from connections to
> relationships?
> - Foresight studies or scenarios about the networked society and related
> transformations in the economy, politics, or society at large.
> - The network society discourse: visions, values and concerns.
> - The networked society as an expression of the 'Good Life'.
> - The non-networked society: is there such a thing, and what is its
> significance?
> - Networks of responsibilities in the information society.
> - Network economy and networked society.
> - Societal implications of networked modes of governance.
> - Engagement and participation as modes of networking.
> - Empirical studies of network society phenomena, such as social networks
> or social production.
> - Critical theory-inspired accounts of the networked society.
>
> References
> Benkler, Y. (2006). The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production
> Transforms Markets and Freedom. Yale University Press.
> Castells, M. (Ed.) (2004). The Network Society: A Cross-Cultural
> Perspective. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Pub.
> Castells, M., & Cardoso, G. (Eds.). (2005). The Network Society - From
> Knowldege to Policy. Washington, DC: Johns Hopkins Center for Transatlantic
> Relations.
> Networked Society - Ericsson. (2012). Retrieved from
> http://www.ericsson.com/thinkingahead/networked_society
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> Track chairs
> S?amas Kelly, Stefan Klein, Bernd Carsten Stahl
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> For further information please check:
> http://www.ecis2015.eu/participation/list-tracks/01-networked-society
> http://www.ecis2015.eu/participation/call-for-papers
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