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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>18th Americas Conference on Information Systems<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Seattle, Washington, August 9-12, 2012<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>TRACK: Philosophical Perspectives in IS<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>MINI-TRACK: Socio-Technical Aspects of Information Systems<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Description:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The traditional view of information systems (IS) and their development (ISD) has progressed significantly <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>since the early information systems developed under the technology-centric view; the hardware and its ‘user’. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>There is growing acceptance that it is not solely the technical issues which are the major factor in their <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>successful development and use, but the other relevant (non-technical) human and social factors. These <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>combine with technologies to create the informated contexts in which IS are developed and operate; <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>effectively or otherwise. Within the IS field the ‘socio-technical’ movement (Mumford, {1995, 2003}) can be <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>seen to provide insights into this complex relationship between the technological artefact and the social <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>aspects in which they are situated (Avgerou et. al., 2004). As such they may be understood independently of <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>the actors that produced them in the first place but intimately situated within their contemporary contexts. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In doing so these technologies and their functionality may be seen to combine with humans and their actions <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>to constitute informated ‘socio-technical ensemble’ (Bijker and Law 1995) that exhibit a concerted agency. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>How such ensembles may be effectively created, maintained and changed – locally and globally- incrementally <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>and radically - is the subject of this mini-track.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Suggested topics:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>• Social informatics<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>• The application of social theory to information systems (eg. Structuration Theory, Actor-Network Theory, StructurANTion Theory) <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>• Human and organisational aspects of information systems<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>• Balancing of social and technical factors in information systems development and information systems<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>• Critiques of the socio-technical approach<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>• Case studies of socio-technical analysis of information systems<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>• Socio-materiality and its implications for our understanding of information systems<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>• Comparative studies (ie. between sectors, countries, cultures, etc.) of socio-technical analyses of information systems<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>• Comparative analyses of socio-technical change and information systems<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>• Global/local (or ‘glocal’) balance of information systems within a socio-technical context<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Mini-track chairs:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Laurence Brooks<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Email: Laurence.Brooks@brunel.ac.uk<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>School of Information Systems Computing and Mathematics, Brunel University, UK <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Phone: +44 (0) 1895 266010<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>David Wainwright<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Email: david.wainwright@northumbria.ac.uk<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>School of Computing, Engineering & Information Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Phone: +44 (0) 191 2437634<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Submission Procedure:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Submit your manuscript using the manuscript central system at - http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2012<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Important Dates<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>* January 2, 2012: Manuscript Central will start accepting paper submissions<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>* March 1, 2012: (11:59 PM Pacific time zone): Deadline for paper submissions<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>* April 2, 20012: Authors will be notified of acceptances on or about this date<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>* April 20, 2012: (11:59 PM Pacific time zone): For accepted papers, camera ready copy due<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>_______________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Laurence Brooks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Past President, UK Academy for Information Systems (UKAIS) President, UK Systems Society (UKSS)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Course Director, MSc Information Systems Management (ISM)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>(<a href="http://www.brunel.ac.uk/siscm/disc/postgraduates/masters/information-systems-management"><span style='color:blue'>http://www.brunel.ac.uk/siscm/disc/postgraduates/masters/information-systems-management</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Lecturer, Department of Information Systems and Computing School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics Brunel University Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH, UK.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Tel: +44 (0)1895 266010 (direct)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Fax: +44 (0)1895 251686<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Mobile: +44 (0)7866 726928<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Email: <a href="mailto:laurence.brooks@brunel.ac.uk"><span style='color:blue'>laurence.brooks@brunel.ac.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Skype: laurencebrooks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Web: <a href="http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~csstllb/"><span style='color:blue'>http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~csstllb/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>UKAIS: <a href="http://www.ukais.org"><span style='color:blue'>http://www.ukais.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>UKSS: <a href="http://www.ukss.org.uk"><span style='color:blue'>http://www.ukss.org.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>