[AISWorld] Call for Paper, AMCIS 2018 mini-track: The Controversial Information Technologies [SIGADIT]

[Hamed Qahri-Saremi]

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****Call for Full and Emergent Research Forum (ERF) Research Papers****


AMCIS 2018, Aug. 16-18, 2018, New Orleans, LA, USA.

Track: Adoption and Diffusion of Information Technology (SIGADIT)

Mini-track: *The Controversial Information Technologies*



*Description of the Mini-track:*

Controversial Information Technologies (CIT) such as smartphones, social media,
video-games, and cloud computing are perceived as having the potential to
both benefit and damage the well-being of the user. On one hand, CIT use
can benefit users, organizations, and the society by improving
productivity, performance, and satisfaction. On the other hand, CIT use can
also result in negative and often unplanned outcomes, rendering them a
double-edged sword. CIT includes a wide range of information systems that
we use today; some examples include social networking sites that can be
both beneficial and harmful for the user, emails that despite their flexibility
and connectivity benefits can also be interruptive for the work, and
algorithmic and biometrics systems that despite their benefits toward
productivity, can be source of concerns given the amount and type of
information
they collect from users. While nominal IT use have received extensive
attention in IS research, CIT adoption, use, and consequences have been
largely ignored. This mini-track provides a forum for the exchange of
research ideas to shed light on issues related to CIT’s adoption and use,
various behaviors users may exhibit when using CIT, and consequences of
using CIT for individuals and organizations.



*Mini-track co-chairs:*

Isaac Vaghefi, SUNY Binghamton: svaghefi at binghamton.edu
Hamed Qahri-Saremi, DePaul University: hqahrisa at depaul.edu
Shamel Addas, Queens University: shamel.addas at queensu.ca



*Important Dates:*

*15 January 2018:* ScholarOne opens for submissions.
*28 February 2018:* ScholarOne closes for submissions.
*18 April 2018:* Notification of initial decisions.

*Submission Instructions:*
https://amcis2018.aisnet.org/submissions/call-for-papers/