[IRIS] CFP: SIGPRAG 9th Workshop, June 3, 2024

[John Stouby Persson]

AIS SIGPRAG 9th Workshop, June 3, 2024



"Meaning, Values, and Actions in the Design of Digital Practices: Explicating Pragmatism in Information Systems Research"



In conjunction with the 19th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST2024), Trollhättan, Sweden

The AIS Special Interest Group in Pragmatist Information Systems (IS) Research (SIGPRAG) wants to stimulate and promote pragmatist IS research in ways that address relevant and timely areas, questions, and phenomena. In the 2024 workshop, this will be done by putting an emphasis back on pragmatism in IS research through the theme: “Meaning, Values, and Actions in the Design of Digital Practices: Explicating Pragmatism in Information Systems Research”. The theme calls for pragmatist IS research of today’s challenges and opportunities with and within digital practices in organizations where Information Technology (IT) and Information Systems (IS) artifacts are central objects of meaning, values, and actions.

The rapid digitalization of organizations and society necessitates that we inquire into digital practices and their creation of meaning, how they become meaningful for organizations over time, and how IS/IT affords meaningful actions for people. On the one hand, the rapid pace of design, development, adoption, and discharge of state-of-the-art IT has become a societal norm that informs organizations’ formation of digital practices. On the other hand, the rapid pace of such development overshadows organizations’ critical reflection on the meaningful implications of digital practices. To better understand how meanings, values, and actions are intertwined with the design of digital practices, the theme of this workshop acknowledges the following topics:

●       Digital practices in IS that have an explicit foundation in pragmatism

●       Pragmatist foundations and applications of pragmatist IS research to digital practices

●       Pragmatist ways to conceptualize and describe meaning and meaningful technologies in IS research

●       Pragmatist ways to critically problematize the entanglement of values and technologies in IS research

●       Pragmatist accounts of how technologies afford meaningful actions for the formation of digital practices

●       Pragmatist approaches for designing and evaluating emerging technologies’ (e.g., Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality) potential for supporting meaning creation in digital practices

●       The philosophy of pragmatism and its implications for the development, use, and management of artifact solutions that address problems of digital practices in IS

●       Pragmatist approaches to addressing concepts, values, and theories of digital practices in IS

●       Co-creation of knowledge for meaning and values in emerging practices

●       Philosophically grounded and practice-oriented papers theorizing the relationship between meaning and values from perspectives of pragmatism

●       Case descriptions, including descriptions of and reflections on digital practices

●       Pragmatist-driven design of digital artifacts that aim to create digital practices in various domains of work



Following the tradition of SIGPRAG workshops, we also accept papers on the foundations and application of pragmatist IS research. Such papers may cover pragmatist approaches to and views on:



●       Research designs (e.g., Practice research; Action research; Design science research; Action design research; Case study research; Evaluation research)

●       Conceptualizing and describing digital artifacts (e.g., Ensemble view; Socio-technical view; Contextual view; Functional tool view; Affordance view; Communicative action view)

●       Conceptualizing and describing practices (e.g., Symbolic interaction; Language action; Socio-materiality; Institutionalism; Actor-networks)

●       Design processes (e.g., Openness in innovation; Design thinking; Collaborative design; Stakeholder inclusion; How to tackle wicked problems; Design conversations; Values and goals articulation; Creativity in design; Design and evaluation strategies)



Workshop Purpose and Procedure
This workshop will bring scholars and practitioners together for knowledge exchange and development on pragmatist research foundations and practical contributions to the IS field.


The workshop is a developmental arena with thoughtful and constructive feedback from reviews and comments from other scholars in IS. The workshop should be a place where you can present ideas in papers and get fruitful feedback for further development of the papers.


Dates and Submission Details
Submission Opens: March 6, 2024
Deadline for submiting Extended Abstract (or full papers): April 2, 2024
Notification of Acceptance for Extended Abstracts/Full papers: April 10, 2024
Submit Full Manuscripts: May 27, 2024

Workshop: June 3, 2024 between 09-16 CET



The workshop will follow an ordinary scientific procedure with a submission of extended abstracts on 2 pages. The selection of extended abstracts is conducted through peer-review pursued by the SIGPRAG committee. After the selection, the authors are invited to send their full paper submissions, which are expected to be between 5 and16 pages. We welcome full research papers, conceptual papers, as well work-in-progress / position papers.



For submissions, we use the EasyChair system:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigprag9thvirtualwor



Workshop papers (as being in a state of development) will solely be distributed among workshop participants.

Workshop Co-Chairs

●       Göran Goldkuhl, Linköping University, Sweden (goran.goldkuhl at liu.se<mailto:goran.goldkuhl at liu.se>)

●       John Stouby Persson, Aalborg University, Denmark (john at cs.aau.dk<mailto:john at cs.aau.dk>)

Program Committee

●       Amir Haj-Bolouri, University West, Sweden (amir.haj-bolouri at hv.se<mailto:amir.haj-bolouri at hv.se>)

●       Markus Helfert, Maynooth University, Ireland (Markus.Helfert at mu.ie<mailto:Markus.Helfert at mu.ie>)

●       Leona Chandra Kruse, University of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein/Agder University, Norway (leona.chandra at uni.li<mailto:leona.chandra at uni.li>)

●       Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, Netherlands (h.weigand at tilburguniversity.edu<mailto:h.weigand at tilburguniversity.edu>)

●       Kieran Conboy, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland (kieran.conboy at universityofgalway.ie<mailto:kieran.conboy at universityofgalway.ie>)


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John Stouby Persson, PhD
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