[AISWorld] CFP // AMCIS 2018 // Social Inclusion Track

[Windeler, Jaime (windeljb)]

***ATTENTION RESEARCHERS ON DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL INCLUSION IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS**



CALL FOR PAPERS at the 24th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

August 16-18, 2018



Track: Social Inclusion

Sponsored by: SIG-Social Inclusion

Track Chair: Jaime Windeler; Jaime.Windeler at uc.edu



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


Track Description: 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.



The Social Inclusion track includes four minitracks:



Minitrack 1: Social Inclusion
Chair: Katherine Chudoba, kathy.chudoba at usu.edu<mailto:kathy.chudoba at usu.edu>

This mini-track welcomes theoretical, empirical, and intervention research, in either completed research or emergent research forum (research-in-progress) format, which relates to the mission of SIG Social Inclusion (SIGSI). SIGSI promotes research, pedagogy, and outreach on all aspects of social inclusion in the field of Information Systems (IS). The goal is to stimulate greater diversity of thought and personnel in AIS and the IS field overall, and participation of all our members in a more socially-aware and inclusive discipline. Social inclusion research includes topics such as the gender gap in the IS field, gender minorities (e.g. LGBTQ community), intersectionality of identities (such as ethnicity, gender and socio-economic class), socioeconomic divisions that impact access to or use of technology, the digital divide, underserved groups in the information society (such as persons with disability), and a range of topics related to human diversity, and the 'haves' and 'have nots' in the information society.

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Minitrack 2: Gender Issues in IS
Co-chair: Deborah Armstrong, djarmstrong at fsu.ed<mailto:djarmstrong at fsu.ed>
Co-chair: Cindy Riemenschneider, c_riemenschneider at baylor.edu<mailto:c_riemenschneider at baylor.edu>

This mini track covers gender issues that are emerging where people and technology meet in a global marketplace. These issues may be examined from an organizational, social, managerial, cultural, psychological, and/or political perspective using individual, workgroup or department, or industry levels of analysis. Studies developing or extending theory on various workforce issues, related to gender, professional identity, the gig economy, or human capital analytics are just a few examples of the range of papers seen in this minitrack. This minitrack also welcomes papers which offer insights into the training, professional development, and engagement of current and future generations of IS professionals as well as succession planning for continued success. This minitrack enthusiastically welcomes all methodologies and research paradigms as well as cross-cultural studies and best practices/lessons learned that focus on the intersection of people and technology.

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Minitrack 3: Social Theory in Information Systems Research
Co-chair: Howard Rosenbaum, hrosenba at indiana.edu<mailto:hrosenba at indiana.edu>
Co-chair: Pnina Fichman, fichman at indiana.edu<mailto:fichman at indiana.edu>

This minitrack solicits papers using social theory to critically examine ICTs and their roles in enabling and constraining social inclusion. We are particularly interested in completed or emerging research using social theory to address the conference theme, Digital Disruption, exploring the ways in which emerging technologies are changing the sociotechnical landscape in ways that narrow or widen the digital divide. Issues might include improving access to computing for underrepresented minorities, reengineering the pipeline in STEM education for greater inclusiveness and diversity, critically assessing the ways in which ICTs and information systems can be used to privilege some and exclude others, and the ways in which ICT assemblages support and challenge political, cultural, and economic hegemonies. This will be the 18th consecutive year for STIR, and we hope to continue a tradition of high quality papers, and thought-provoking and lively discussion for IS researchers using social theory in their work.

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Minitrack 4: IT-Enabled Social Inclusion of Differently Abled People
Chair: Rakesh Babu, rakesh0208 at gmail.com<mailto:rakesh0208 at gmail.com>

This mini-track invites contributions based on completed or in-progress research on the broad theme of IT-enabled social inclusion of the differently-abled (DA). DA include the blind & visually-impaired, the elderly, the hearing-impaired and the dyslexic. They are atypical users who interact with IT differently. Often, they face systemic and functional barriers in effective use of IT. Moreover, they are an under-studied population in Information Systems discipline. We draw the attention of the AIS community to the broad theme of IT-enabled Social Inclusion of the DA. The long-term goal is to leverage the unique skill-sets of DA users to develop an inclusive information society. Relevant topics include Information Systems Accessibility & Usability; Universal Access to IS Education; E-learning of DA; Social/ Mobile Computing through Assistive-Technology; Healthcare IS for the DA; Public Policy and/or Legal Implications of Accessibility and Usability.

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***Important Dates:***

* 15 January 2018: ScholarOne opens for submissions

* 28 February 2018: ScholarOne closes for submissions

* 18 April 2018: Notification of initial decisions


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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>