[AISWorld] LAST CALL for AMCIS 2018: Call for social inclusion minitrack proposals - deadline Oct 18

[Windeler, Jaime (windeljb)]

SIG-Social Inclusion is sponsoring a track at AMICS 2018 in New Orleans. We invite submissions for mini-track proposals, due October 18. The proposal involves a 150- word description of the minitrack, plus chair contact information. It's quick and painless!



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The Social Inclusion track welcomes relevant theoretical, empirical, and intervention research, in either completed research or emergent research format, that relates to the mission of SIG Social Inclusion (SIGSI). The purpose of SIGSI is to promote research, pedagogy, and outreach on all aspects of social inclusion in the field of Information Systems (IS). The goal of such efforts is to stimulate greater diversity of thought and personnel in AIS and the IS field overall, and participation of all AIS members in a more socially-aware and inclusive discipline.

Social inclusion research investigates the part IT plays in enabling or inhibiting individuals and social groups' participation in the social structures in which they exist and the needs of under-represented producers or consumers of information systems and technology within the IT field. Topics include: the underrepresentation of gender minorities, race, ethnicities, neurodiversity, and abilities in the IS field, intersectionality of identities (such as ethnicity, gender and socio-economic class), socioeconomic divisions that impact access to or use of technology, designing for the differently-abled, the digital divide, underserved groups in the information society, and a range of topics related to human diversity, and the "haves" and "have nots" in the information society.



Possible minitrack topics could include, but are not limited to:

-          Gender issues in the information systems discipline

-          Inclusion of differently-abled in the information economy

-          Analysis of the digital divide

-          Diversity and inclusion in distributed work

-          Multicultural inclusion and exclusion

-          Managing diversity and inclusion in the IT workforce

-          Methodological challenges in studying diversity and inclusion



Selected completed papers may be invited to submit to The Data Base for Advances in Information Systems for full review.

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Minitrack proposals should be submitted through the conference submission system at:

https://confs.precisionconference.com/%7Eamcis/



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September 20, 2017   System opens for Minitrack proposals

October 18, 2017        Minitrack proposals due

October 25, 2017        Track chairs' decisions on minitracks due

November 1, 2017      Minitrack decisions announced

January 2018               System opens for general paper submissions



TRACK CHAIRS:
Jaime Windeler, University of Cincinnati, Jaime.Windeler at uc.edu<mailto:Jaime.Windeler at uc.edu> (primary contact)
Hala Annabi, University of Washington, hpannabi at uw.edu<mailto:hpannabi at uw.edu>



FURTHER INFO on AMCIS and SIG-Social Inclusion:

AMCIS website: http://amcis2018.aisnet.org/

SIGSI on Linkedin: http://tinyurl.com/SIGSIlinkedin


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Jaime Windeler, PhD
Assistant Professor of Information Systems
Carl H. Lindner College of Business
University of Cincinnati
318 Lindner Hall
Cincinnati, OH 45221
Tel: 513-556-7120
Fax: 513-556-5499
E-mail: Jaime.Windeler at uc.edu<mailto:Jaime.Windeler at uc.edu>