[AISWorld] CfP: Electronic Markets Special Issue "Digitization of the Individual" - Deadline Extended

[christian.matt at iwi.unibe.ch]

Please note that due to several requests, the deadline has been extended to April 15, 2017.



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Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business
Call for Papers - Digitization of the Individual

Guest Editors
* Christian Matt, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, christian.matt at iwi.unibe.ch<mailto:christian.matt at iwi.unibe.ch>
* Manuel Trenz, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany, manuel.trenz at wiwi.uni-augsburg.de<mailto:manuel.trenz at wiwi.uni-augsburg.de>
* Christy M.K. Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China, ccheung at hkbu.edu.hk<mailto:ccheung at hkbu.edu.hk>
* Ofir Turel, California State University, Fullerton, USA, oturel at fullerton.edu<mailto:oturel at fullerton.edu>

Theme
As our lives become immersed by powerful digital devices and services, questions of implications for individuals' lives as well as their social interactions and structures arise. IS research has traditionally focused rather on institutional contexts (Baskerville 2011). However, the digitization of individuals' private contexts offers manifold important research questions to be solved (Hess et al. 2014). In everyone's life outside the organizational context these pertain individual behavior and decision making and the positive and negative consequences thereof, but also communication and interactions with other individuals as well as firms. The emerging fully digitized and connected environment implies changes to the development, exploitation and management of personal IS. While particular scenarios (e.g. smart home, connected cars, social networks) have received partial attention in different fields, this special issue seeks to gather these fragmented views and bring together researchers interested in the impact of digitization on individuals.
Research in this area is beneficial in two ways. First, understanding the implications, opportunities and threats of the digitization of private lives enables suppliers of digital technologies to form closer and stronger connections with their customers and to build services and devices that better match their expectations and improve their everyday lives. Second, this research can help to develop policies and practices that improve the usage and exploitation of digital technologies on a societal level. By encouraging a systematic focus on the individual, this special issue strives for a common understanding of the role of the individual and the challenges and opportunities owing to novel digital technologies.

Central Issues and Themes
Possible topics of submissions include, but are not limited to:

-        Individual behavior in connected digital environments, such as

·       Choice making in digital environments

·       Individual behavior in social networks and the sharing economy

·       Individual communication and consumption patterns

·       Digital collaboration among individuals

-        Positive and negative outcomes of digitization and connectivity, such as

·       Effects of usage of digital devices and ubiquitous connectivity on individuals' attitudes, behaviors and performance

·       Techno-overload and techno-stress

·       Privacy and IT-security issues for individuals' private lives

·       The impact of quantification on the self

-        Development, exploitation and management of personal IS

·       IT-facilitated learning

·       Individual's information system architectures and connected environments

·       Development of solutions for individual use

·       Personal health devices
We also welcome contributions addressing related topics not listed above (please contact the special issue editors in that case to discuss the fit prior to submission).
All papers will be peer reviewed and should conform to Electronic Markets' publication standards. Electronic Markets is a SSCI-listed journal (IF 1.404) and supports methodological and theoretical pluralism, i.e. empirical or theoretical work, qualitative research and design science are all welcome by the journal. If you would like to discuss any aspect of the special issue, please contact the guest editors.

Submission
All papers must be original, not published or under review elsewhere. Papers must be submitted via our electronic submission system at http://elma.edmgr.com. Instructions, templates and general information are available at http://www.electronicmarkets.org/authors. Please note the preferred article length is around 6,500 words (excl. reference list).

Important Deadline
* Submission deadline for the Special Issue: April 15, 2017

References
Baskerville, R. (2011): Individual Information Systems as a Research Arena, European Journal of Information Systems, 20, 251-254; doi:10.1057/ejis.2011.8
Hess, T.; Legner, C.; Esswein, W.; Maaß, W.; Matt, C.; Österle, H.; Schlieter, H.; Richter, P.; Zarnekow, R. (2014): Digital Life as a Topic of Business and Information Systems Engineering?, Business & Information Systems Engineering 6(4), 247-253



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