[AISWorld] Special Issue of AIMS Neuroscience: Theorizing information systems from a neuroscientific perspective

[Lars Taxén]

Special Issue of AIMS Neuroscience: Theorizing information systems from a
neuroscientific perspective

Topic Editor: Associate Professor Lars Taxén

Email: lars.taxen at gmail.com



The Information Systems (IS) field spans people, organizations, and
technology. Thus, it is well positioned for inquiries into the relation
between neuroscience and social sciences. So far, research has proceeded
mainly without cross-border fertilization between these areas in spite of
them being deeply entangled – the social cannot be fully understood without
the individual and the other way around. Recently, however, the NeuroIS
initiative (http://www.neurois.org/neuro-is/) has addressed this gap by
relying on neuroscience and neurophysiological knowledge and tools to
better understand development, use, and impact of information and
communication technologies.


The purpose of this announcement is to continue this line of inquiry by
focusing on a topic that has so far received limited attention – the
application of neuroscientific findings to advance IS theorizing. One
motivation for attending this topic is that the essence of key IS concepts
such as ‘information,’ ‘theory,’ ‘system,’ ‘organization’ are still
disputed after decades of research (see e.g. Lee, 2010). Individual papers
may aim to survey broad currents in IS theorizing such as the philosophical
underpinnings of the field or focus more narrowly on a particular topic.
However, all papers should set out from a position where the neural and
social realms are considered to be inextricably related and mutually
constituting each other.


Potential topics and research questions may include (but are not limited
to):

• Conceptualization of ‘information’ in the IS field from a neurobiological
perspective

• Conceptualization of ‘system’ in the IS field from a neurobiological
perspective

• Conceptualization of the ‘IT-artifact’ the IS field from a
neurobiological perspective

• Information Systems are means to support individual and collective
actions in organizations. How can a relational view of ‘action’ be
conceived that spans both the neural and social realms?

• How can such a relational view of action inform the design of Information
Systems?

• Information Systems can be seen as instruments for technology-mediated
work communication (e.g. Goldkuhl, 2009). How can a neurobiological
perspective address such a view?

• How can results in social sciences inform neuroscience?

• How can finding in social sciences guide the management of the massive
amount of data generated by neuroscientific research projects such as the
Human Brain Project, the US Brain project and other initiatives?


References:

Goldkuhl, G. (2009). Information systems actability - tracing the
theoretical roots. Semiotica, No 175, 379-401.

Lee, A.S. (2010). Retrospect and prospect: information systems research in
the last and next 25 years. Journal of Information Technology, 25(4),
336–348.


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