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Abstract Announcement for International Journal of Information Systems for
Crisis Response and Management (IJISCRAM) 6(4)
The contents of the latest issue of:
International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and
Management (IJISCRAM)
Volume 6, Issue 4, October - December 2014
Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically
ISSN: 1937-9390; EISSN: 1937-9420;
Published by IGI Global Publishing, Hershey, USA
_www.igi-global.com/ijiscram_
(http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-information-systems-crisis/1119)
Editor(s)-in-Chief: Murray E. Jennex (San Diego State University, USA),
Bartel Van de Walle (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)Note: There are no
submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to the
International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
(IJISCRAM). All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review
editorial process.
GUEST EDITORIAL PREFACE
Special Issue on How to do IT more Carefully: Ethical, Legal and Social
Issues (ELSI) in IT Supported Crisis Response and Management
Monika Büscher (Centre for Mobilities Research, Mobilities.lab, Department
of Sociology, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK), Michael Liegl (Centre
for Mobilities Research, Mobilities.lab, Department of Sociology, Lancaster
University, Lancaster, UK), Caroline Rizza (Economics, Management and
Social Sciences Department, Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France), Hayley Watson
(Trilateral Research and Consulting, London, UK)
To obtain a copy of the Guest Editorial Preface, click on the link below.
_www.igi-global.com/pdf.aspx?tid=129600&ptid=91537&ctid=15&t=Special Issue
on How to do IT more Carefully: Ethical, Legal and Social Issues (ELSI) in
IT Supported Crisis Response and Management_
(http://www.igi-global.com/pdf.aspx?tid=129600&ptid=91537&ctid=15&t=Special%20Issue%20on%20How%20to%20do%20
IT%20more%20Carefully:%20Ethical,%20Legal%20and%20Social%20Issues%20(ELSI)%2
0in%20IT%20Supported%20Crisis%20Response%20and%20Management)
ARTICLE 1
Boosting Efficiency Through the Use Of IT?: Reconfiguring the Management
of Mass Casualty Incidents in Germany
Nils Ellebrecht (Department of Sociology, Albert-Ludwigs-University
Freiburg, Freiburg, German), Stefan Kaufmann (Department of Sociology,
Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany)
Processes of technological innovation are often rationalised with the
promise of improved efficiency. Using the example of the development and
introduction of an information technology system for managing mass casualty
incidents, this article shows that this hope may indeed be substantiated. Yet,
an assessment of the societal impacts might show that these improvements
often happen in unexpected places or ways. They invariably emerge in relation
to organisational structures, cultural influences, and interests. In
addition, when focusing only on the advantages of novel technologies, the
problems they typically bring with them are ignored. The article challenges three
improvements in efficiency usually associated with IT (time savings,
improved decision making capacity, and detailed synopsis) with empirical
investigations and field observations that were made during the four-year
development and introduction phase. In conclusion, evaluations of the technology
were neither completely positive nor negative but ambivalent: emphasis on the
positive or negative effects depended on the perspectives of the different
potential users.
To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
_www.igi-global.com/article/boosting-efficiency-through-the-use-of-it/129602
_
(http://www.igi-global.com/article/boosting-efficiency-through-the-use-of-it/129602)
To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.
_www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=129602_
(http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=129602)
ARTICLE 2
Digital Restrictions at Work: Exploring How Selectively Exclusive Policies
Affect Crisis Communication
Jessica L. Ford (University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA), Keri K.
Stephens (University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA), Jacob S. Ford
(University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA)
As mobile devices become more pervasive, there is an assumption that
mobile use is ubiquitous within organizations. However, some organizations
enforce policies that restrict mobile use at work, often ignoring the ethical
safety implications of these decisions. This study explores how a mobile
device ban at work affects how employees receive urgent information. Based on
previous research on the digital divide and organizational justice, this
study examines two different types of organizations with similar policies
restricting mobile use at work. Here the authors address how organizations
operating under these policies play a unique gatekeeping role in managing
safety and emergency information. Three major themes emerged from the data: lost
information, forgotten workers, and worker dispersion. These themes bring
attention to the implications of digital restrictions, which prevent
certain employees from receiving crucial information in an emergency. The
findings from this research encourage more inclusive policies around mobile use
and prompt future research on digital inequality in the workplace.
To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
_www.igi-global.com/article/digital-restrictions-at-work/129603_
(http://www.igi-global.com/article/digital-restrictions-at-work/129603)
To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.
_www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=129603_
(http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=129603)
ARTICLE 3
Ethical and Privacy Implications of the use of Social Media during the
Eyjafjallajokull Eruption Crisis
Hayley Watson (Trilateral Research and Consulting, London, UK), Rachel L.
Finn (Trilateral Research and Consulting, London, UK)
In a relatively new area of research for crisis management, this article
presents a discussion of some of the privacy and ethical implications
surrounding the use of social media in the event of a crisis. The article uses
the travel chaos caused by the eruptions of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in
2010 to contextualise the analysis. It begins by providing an overview of
the use of social media in crisis management, before continuing to present
two case studies of the use of social media by members of the public and the
aviation industry during the crisis caused by the ash plume. The article
then proceeds to examine some select ethical and privacy implications
stemming from the use of social media such as privacy infringements and
inequality. The article concludes by briefly summarising the findings and considering
next steps for future research in this area.
To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
_www.igi-global.com/article/ethical-and-privacy-implications-of-the-use-of-s
ocial-media-during-the-eyjafjallajokull-eruption-crisis/129604_
(http://www.igi-global.com/article/ethical-and-privacy-implications-of-the-use-of-social
-media-during-the-eyjafjallajokull-eruption-crisis/129604)
To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.
_www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=129604_
(http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=129604)
ARTICLE 4
“Do-it-Yourself Justice”: Considerations of Social Media use in a Crisis
Situation: The Case of the 2011 Vancouver Riots
Caroline Rizza (Economics Management and Social Sciences Department,
Telecom ParisTech - Institut Mines Telecom, Paris, France), Ângela Guimarães
Pereira (JRC, European Commission, Ispra, Italy), Paula Curvelo (University of
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal)
In June 2011, during the ice hockey Stanley Cup, as the Vancouver Canucks
were losing, riots started in downtown Vancouver. Social media were used to
communicate between authorities and citizens, including the rioters. The
media reporting on these events framed these communications within different
narratives, which in turn raised ethical considerations. The authors
identify and reflect upon ideas of justice, fairness, responsibility,
accountability and integrity that arise in the media stories. In addition they
investigate (1) the “institutional unpreparedness” of the Vancouver police
department when receiving such quantity of material and dealing with new
processes of inquiry such material requires; (2) the “unintended
do-it-yourself-justice”: the shift from supporting crisis responders to social media
vigilantes: citizens overruling authorities and enforcing justice on their own
terms and by their own means through social media and; (3) the “unintended
do-it-yourself-society” supported by the potential-of social media's use for
prompting people to act.
To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
_www.igi-global.com/article/do-it-yourself-justice/129605_
(http://www.igi-global.com/article/do-it-yourself-justice/129605)
To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.
_www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=129605_
(http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=129605)
ARTICLE 5
Crowdsourcing Investigations: Crowd Participation in Identifying the Bomb
and Bomber from the Boston Marathon Bombing
Andrea H. Tapia (College of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn
State University, State College, PA, USA), Nicolas J. LaLone (College of
Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State University, State College, PA,
USA)
In this paper the authors illustrate the ethical dilemmas that arise when
large public investigations in a crisis are crowdsourced. The authors focus
the variations in public opinion concerning the actions of two online
groups during the immediate aftermath of the Boston Marathon Bombing. These
groups collected and organized relief for victims, collected photos and videos
taken of the bombing scene and created online mechanisms for the sharing
and analysis of images collected online. They also used their large numbers
and the affordances of the Internet to produce an answer to the question, “
who was the perpetrator, and what kind of bomb was used?” The authors view
their actions through public opinion, through sampling Twitter and applying
a sentiment analysis to this data. They use this tool to pinpoint moments
during the crisis investigation when the public became either more
positively or negatively inclined toward the actions of the online publics. The
authors use this as a surrogate, or proxy, for social approval or disapproval
of their actions, which exposes large swings in public emotion as ethical
lines are crossed by online publics.
To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
_www.igi-global.com/article/crowdsourcing-investigations/129606_
(http://www.igi-global.com/article/crowdsourcing-investigations/129606)
To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.
_www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=129606_
(http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=129606)
ARTICLE 6
Privacy, Security, and Liberty: ICT in Crises
Monika Büscher (Centre for Mobilities Research, Mobilities.lab, Lancaster
University, Lancaster, UK), Sung-Yueh Perng (National Institute for
Regional and Spatial Analysis, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland),
Michael Liegl (Centre for Mobilities Research, Mobilities.lab, Lancaster
University, Lancaster, UK)
This paper explores issues of privacy, security and liberty arising in
relation to information and communication technologies (ICT) for crisis
response and management. Privacy, security and liberty are concepts that have
undergone significant changes over time. The authors show how ICT related
transformations of socio-technical practices involved in their enactment create
challenges, opportunities and dangers in the context of crisis response.
While opportunities include development of more informed, efficient and
agile emergency management, dangers include increased surveillance, social
sorting, and an erosion of privacy, civil liberties and virtues of humanity.
The authors explore causes and mechanisms that underpin these dynamics and
measures developed to address them. Against this backdrop, they discuss ‘
design for privacy' as a socio-technical design approach that empowers people.
The aim is to motivate, and explore avenues for, socio-technical innovation
that supports information processing and respect for privacy in crisis
response and management.
To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
_www.igi-global.com/article/privacy-security-and-liberty/129607_
(http://www.igi-global.com/article/privacy-security-and-liberty/129607)
To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.
_www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=129607_
(http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=129607)
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For full copies of the above articles, check for this issue of the
International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
(IJISCRAM) in your institution's library. This journal is also included in
the IGI Global aggregated "InfoSci-Journals" database:
_www.igi-global.com/isj_
(http://www.igi-global.com/e-resources/infosci-databases/infosci-journals/) .
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Mission of IJISCRAM:
The mission of the International Journal of Information Systems for
Crisis Response and Management (IJISCRAM) is to provide an outlet for
innovative research in the area of information systems for crisis response and
management. Research is expected to be rigorous but can utilize any accepted
methodology and may be qualitative or quantitative in nature. The journal will
provide a comprehensive cross disciplinary forum for advancing the
understanding of the organizational, technical, human, and cognitive issues
associated with the use of information systems in responding and managing crises
of all kinds. The goal of the journal is to publish high quality empirical
and theoretical research covering all aspects of information systems for
crisis response and management. Full-length research manuscripts, insightful
research and practice notes, and case studies will be considered for
publication.
Indices of IJISCRAM:
* ACM Digital Library
* Bacon's Media Directory
* Cabell's Directories
* DBLP
* GetCited
* Google Scholar
* INSPEC
* JournalTOCs
* MediaFinder
* Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD)
* The Index of Information Systems Journals
* The Standard Periodical Directory
* Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
Coverage of IJISCRAM:
This journal covers all aspects of the crisis management information
systems discipline, from organizational or social issues to technology support
to decision making and knowledge representation. High quality submissions
are encouraged using any qualitative or quantitative research methodology,
focusing on the design, development, implementation, uses and evaluation of
such systems. Submissions are especially encouraged covering the following
topics in this discipline:
Case studies, research methods, and modeling approaches Collaborative and
intelligent systems Command and control Communication technologies Crisis
planning, training, exercising, and gaming Data fusion, representation,
and visualization Decision making and judgment Disaster risk reduction,
risk management, ad-hoc, and sensor networks Early warning systems Emergency
response systems Geographical information systems Globalization and
development issues Healthcare and health information systems Human-computer
interaction Humanitarian operations Information systems strategy Knowledge
management and systems Systems interoperability information systems
infrastructures Virtual teams and organizations
Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission
guidelines
_www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers/international-journal-information-systems-crisis/1119_
(http://www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers/international-journal-information-systems-crisis/1119)
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