[AISWorld] Deadline extended: Post-ICIS SIG Social Inclusion (SIGSI) Research Workshop 2018

[Michelle Carter]

Dear Colleagues,

There is still time to submit your work to the 4th Post-ICIS SIG Social
Inclusion (SIGSI) Research Workshop 2018 and join us in San Francisco on
Sunday, December 16, 2018,

We have extended our submission deadline to Friday, October 5, 2018, with
notification of acceptance or rejection by Friday, October 19, 2018.

Details of the workshop are as follows:

SOCIAL INCLUSION AND THE INTERNET OF PEOPLE, DATA, AND THINGS

In the 2018 Post-ICIS research workshop, SIGSI casts a social inclusion
lens on the permeation in our lives of digital and mobile media and the
interplay of people, data, and things. We live in a world where we are
always connected with other people and communities, and interacting with
digital and mobile media has become integral to everyday life and routines.
Consequently, it is imperative that we understand the role of these
technologies in individuals’ and groups’ full participation in the normal,
normatively-prescribed activities of the societies in which they are
embedded.

We encourage submission of research ideas, extended abstracts,
research-in-progress, and articles related to the workshop theme of social
inclusion and the internet of people, data, and things. In addition, we
welcome relevant theoretical, empirical, and intervention submissions that
relate to the mission of the AIS Special Interest Group on Social Inclusion
(SIGSI). SIGSI promotes 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 people in AIS and
the IS field overall, and participation of all our members in a more
socially-aware and inclusive discipline.

Relevant research topics include: winners and losers in a world
characterized by “exponentially growing data and increasingly autonomous
things”; access and opportunity created by the internet of people, data,
and things; the gender gap in the IS field; gender minorities, inclusion of
the differently-abled, inclusion of neurodiversity in IT, intersectionality
of identities (such as ethnicity, gender and socio-economic class),
socioeconomic divisions that impact access to or use of technology, the
digital divide, under-served groups, and a range of topics related to human
diversity, and the “haves” and “have nots” in interconnected digital
environments.

Submitted research can be conceptual, analytical, design-oriented, or
empirical. The workshop will include a keynote address, “ignite” lightning
talks, and roundtable discussions of submitted work.

*** Instructions for Contributors ***

We welcome:

* Completed research papers (10 pages)
* Research-in-progress papers (5 pages)
* Extended abstracts (2 pages)
* Research ideas (1 page)

All submissions will be reviewed. Papers should not have been published
previously in proceedings or journals or concurrently under review
elsewhere; however, it is a general aim of the workshop that accepted
papers will subsequently be submitted to high quality outlets.

*** Important Dates ***

Submissions Deadline: Friday, October 5, 2018

Notification of acceptance or rejection:  Friday, October 19, 2018

Author registration deadline: Friday, November 16, 2018 (At least one
author must register and attend the workshop to present, if the work is
accepted).

***Instructions for Submissions***

Papers should be submitted electronically to: sigsocialinclusion at gmail.com<
mailto:sigsocialinclusion at gmail.com <sigsocialinclusion at gmail.com>>.
Submission
filename should include the first author’s last name e.g.,
Annabi-SIGSI2018.PDF. In the case of multiple submissions, add a number to
the last name e.g., Annabi2-SIGSI.PDF. Questions regarding submissions
should be directed to Hala Annabi at sigsocialinclusion at gmail.com<
mailto:sigsocialinclusion at gmail.com <sigsocialinclusion at gmail.com>>.

Papers should be formatted in accordance with the ICIS 2018 template and
submitted in MS Word format. All submissions should have a cover page that
includes the paper title, submission type, authors’ names, affiliations,
and email addresses. The main body of the paper should have a title but no
author names. Completed research and research-in-progress papers should
include abstracts of no more than 150 words in the main body of the paper.
Page limitations include title, text, tables, figures, and appendices. Page
limitations do not include the cover page, abstract, and references.

***Registration***

Register for the workshop through the ICIS website:

Workshop Registration Fees (in US Dollars)
Early                Reg.                 On-site
By Oct 3          Oct 4 -             Nov 30 &
Nov 29                        After

AIS Member               $75                  $85                  $100
AIS Student                 $25                  $30                  $35
AIS Professional         $100                $110                $125
Non-AIS                     $100                $110                $125

The Workshop Committee encourages a paper-less event. In line with this,
the presentation files, abstracts of papers, and research papers shared by
the author(s) will be compiled and shared with registrants on a flash
drive. Author(s) retain copyright. The registration fee is inclusive of
buffet lunch, coffee/tea and biscuits, and flash drive.

***Workshop Committee***

For information on SIGSI and the SIGSI research workshop, please contact
the 2018 workshop committee:

Hala Annabi, hpannabi at uw.edu<mailto:hpannabi at uw.edu <hpannabi at uw.edu>>
Michelle Carter, michelle.carter at wsu.edu<mailto:mscarter at uw.edu
<mscarter at uw.edu>>
Emma Coleman, Emma.Coleman at wits.ac.za<mailto:Emma.Coleman at wits.ac.za
<Emma.Coleman at wits.ac.za>>
Lakshmi Iyer, iyerLs at appstate.edu<mailto:iyerLs at appstate.edu
<iyerLs at appstate.edu>>
Carmen Leong, carmen.leong at unsw.edu.au<mailto:carmen.leong at unsw.edu.au
<carmen.leong at unsw.edu.au>>
Jaime Windeler, Jaime.Windeler at uc.edu<mailto:Jaime.Windeler at uc.edu
<Jaime.Windeler at uc.edu>>