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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Dear colleagues,</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">We would like to invite you to send a submission to our special issue in the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems. Apologies for cross-posting.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="https://communities.aisnet.org/scandinavia/sjis/cfp-special-issue"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1155CC">The Dark Side of IS: Role of the IT Artefact</span></b></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<b>Submissions Due:</b> October 15th 2023<o:p></o:p></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<b>Round 1 Decisions:</b> December 15th 2023<o:p></o:p></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<b>Revisions Due:</b> March 15th 2024<o:p></o:p></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<b>Round 2 Decisions:</b> May 1st 2024<o:p></o:p></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span lang="EN-US">Second Revisions (if needed):</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> June 20th 2024<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span lang="EN-US">Anticipated Publication Date:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> December 31st 2024<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">The focus of the special issue will be on theorising the IT artefact in problematic technology use, and how individuals, organisations, and society can prevent and respond to undesirable technology behaviour. The IT artefact
is a core part of the information systems discipline. However, conceptualisations of materiality in existing studies on dark side phenomena are often unclear. Topics of relevance to this special issue include, but are not limited, to:</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span lang="EN-US">Theoretical frameworks, conceptual models, and ethical considerations (e.g., social justice) that provide new understandings of the IT artefact in dark side phenomena.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span lang="EN-US">Innovative methodologies for investigating problematic technology use and the influence of IT artefacts on users, organisations, and society as a whole.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span lang="EN-US">Research contributing to an improved understanding on the design and IT-related characteristics that trigger or contribute to negative effects or alternatively help resolve the key issues. For example, are dark-sided phenomena already existent
when an IT artefact is introduced, or is it produced/reproduced by an IT artefact?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span lang="EN-US">Design principles explaining why users, organisations, and society engage in problematic behaviours within voluntary and involuntary IT use contexts.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span lang="EN-US">Research on the dark side of emerging technologies such as AI (e.g., ChatGPT), the metaverse, digital twins, augmented reality, and deep fakes.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span lang="EN-US">Unintended consequences of IT artefacts such as deception and malicious use, new forms of technostress (e.g. in the metaverse), technology-mediated addiction, cyberbullying, monitoring/surveillance and privacy issues.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span lang="EN-US">IT artefact design features and policy agendas for data justice and mitigating problematic technology use (e.g., digital locks, control mechanisms, digital nudging and sludging).<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span lang="EN-US">Context-specific (e.g., cultural, geographical, industry, educational settings) studies that provide new understandings of the IT artefact in dark side phenomena.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:#333333;background:white"><br>
We are looking forward to receiving your submissions. For any questions, pl</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#333333">ease email
</span><a href="mailto:stephen.mccarthy@ucc.ie"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1155CC;background:white">stephen.mccarthy@ucc.ie</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#333333;background:white">.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#333333;background:white">Stephen McCarthy</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#333333;background:white">, University College Cork, Ireland.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#333333;background:white">Peter André Busch</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#333333;background:white">, University of Agder, Norway</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#333333;background:white">Christy M. K. Cheung</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#333333;background:white">, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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