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<div dir="auto"><span style="font-size: 11pt">+++ Short Call for Papers +++</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
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</span><span style="font-size: 11pt">Digital technologies and our world are deeply enmeshed shaping our lives into a digital world. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt">These technologies (e.g., artificial intelligence, blockchain, social media platforms) relate to values in overt and covert ways. They bolster or challenge values that frequently remain unquestioned and hidden but do surface
when examining the intended and unintended technology effects. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt">For research to co-enact a better digital world, we need to reflect on and problematize the values inscribed in technology. In this call, we ask researchers to embrace contrarian thinking seeking alternative viewpoints that
may contradict prevailing attitudes or trends to understand phenomena.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt">Specifically, we ask scholars, "Which values do we value?" and encourage them to collectively engage in reflection and action on how values underpin, inform, and perform the digital world in which we live. We seek studies
that exemplify how we as a community can engage with the values in digital technologies, their design, development, and use.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt">Some of the key topics we are interested in include (but are not limited to):</span></div>
<ul>
<li style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt">Value-reflexive research into digital transformation, artificial intelligence, privacy, cybersecurity, digital infrastructures, blockchain, social media and other digital technologies</span>
</li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt">Value-driven digital transformation of society, organisations and the individual</span>
</li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt">Values in digital innovation, business model design, business process design, data analytics, digital entrepreneurship, etc.</span>
</li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt">Values in designing, implementing and adopting digital technologies and policies for enacting cybersecurity, privacy, and data protection, etc. </span>
</li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt">Value positions in the design and development of digital technology </span>
</li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt">Values in the governance of digital technology (e.g., artificial intelligence, blockchain, digital infrastructures)</span>
</li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt">The role of values in user experience design and human computer interaction (e.g., nudging, persuasive design, universal design, value-sensitive design)</span>
</li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt">Societal, economical, institutional value structures and digital ecosystems, platforms, or infrastructures</span>
</li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt">Competing values in digital technologies at the societal, organisational or individual level</span>
</li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt">Contrarian thinking on digital disparities, e.g., digital divide, digital dignity and digital equality or in-equality</span>
</li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt">Value-washing (e.g., green-washing) in corporate digital responsibility, privacy, cybersecurity, business models, digital innovation and digital entrepreneurship</span>
</li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt">Manifestation of values in digital technology</span>
</li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt">Materialisation of values in digital technology</span>
</li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt">Theorising around values in digital phenomena</span>
</li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt">The socio-technical nature of values</span>
</li></ul>
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</span><span style="color:#c6c9cd;font-family:Inter, -apple-system, system-ui, Segoe UI, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt">The initial paper </span><strong style="color:#c6c9cd;font-family:Inter, -apple-system, system-ui, Segoe UI, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt">submission
deadline</strong><span style="color:#c6c9cd;font-family:Inter, -apple-system, system-ui, Segoe UI, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt"> is on February 2, 2024.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt">You can find the call for papers including the full timeline and list of AEs here: https://www.callforpapers.co.uk/ejis-contrarian-thinking</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt">In case of questions, feel free to reach out to any of the special issue guest editors. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt">Markus P. Zimmer </span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt">markus.zimmer@leuphana.de </span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt">Xenia Vasilakopoulou</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt">polyxeni.vasilakopoulou@uia.no</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt">Miria Grisot</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt">miriag@ifi.uio.no</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt">Marko Niemimaa</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt">marko.niemimaa@uia.no</span></div>
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