[AISWorld] CFP: Special issue of Information Systems Frontiers on "Being (more) Human in a Digitized World"

[Saji K Mathew]

Announcing a special issue of *Information Systems Frontiers*
<https://www.springer.com/business+%26+management/business+information+systems/journal/10796>

on

BEING (MORE) HUMAN IN A DIGITIZED WORLD

Everyday living in the digitized world is undergoing rapid change. In
recent times the spread of mobile phones has greatly expanded access to
basic telephony and internet based services. This has provided plenty of
opportunities to individuals, families, corporations and governments to
communicate and collaborate while on the move. The positive impact of
technology such as ICT and digital platforms, in improving livelihood and
reducing exploitation in certain areas of human life is addressed well in
the information systems literature. For example, the impact of digital
platforms in developing countries like mPesa in Kenya, eKutir in India,
mFish in Indonesia, have been highlighted in recent academic research.
Here, digital technologies play a critical role in bringing about financial
inclusion, access to markets, access to healthcare and the empowerment of
women and the marginalized in certain cultures and geographical regions.

While digitization has opened up such opportunities for uplifting human
values, there has also been concerns about how living in the digital era
results in invasion of rights to privacy, building of the surveillance
nation (panopticon), shift of power to the digitally advantaged, creation
of the digitally left-behind, ability to intrude into politics and
democratic processes of countries and proliferation of rumours during
extreme events. Many contemporary debates in information systems and
technology are centred around ethical and social implications arising from
the use of information technology devices, applications and platforms. The
shifting discourse in the information systems literature demands greater
attention to the reframing of human values (values that make human beings
human and will make them more distinctly human), given the changing nature
of the social fabric. The dualities and paradoxes that technology’s
pervasiveness gives rise to, such as inclusion and exclusion; empowerment
and dependence are yet unresolved and are likely to remain so.

This special issue aims to encourage both academic scholars and
practitioners to share their research on the theme of social implications
of information systems in an increasingly digitized world. We welcome
research papers which could potentially contribute to the body of knowledge
related to this theme especially in contexts such as politics, government,
education, industry and not for profit organizations. We are interested in
exploring the theme through the following topics, although this is not a
restrictive list:

=> Social Implications of Information Systems
=> Digitally enabled Social Innovations
=> Digital Social In/Ex-clusion
=> Social Shaping of Technology
=> Politics in(of) a Digital Society
=> Social Affordances of Technology Platforms
=> Work Fragmentation and Digital Bricolage
=> Social Consequences of Telework
=> Consumption of the Digital
=> Human-Computer Interaction
=> Ungendering Technology Education and Use
=> Designing Technology that is more Human(e)
=> Technology for the non-user: the elderly, the marginalized and the
differently abled
=> Information Technology for the Informal Sector

Author guidelines for submission of papers to ISF can  be accessed at
“Instructions for Authors” section of the journal website
<https://www.springer.com/business+%26+management/business+information+systems/journal/10796>.
Manuscripts must be submitted online at
http://www.editorialmanager.com/isfi/
Please select “Special Issue: Being (more) human in a digitized world”.

*Timelines:*
Submission deadline: March 1, 2019
Notification of first round reviews: June 1, 2019
Revised Manuscripts due: August 1, 2019
Notification of second round reviews: September 1, 2019
Final Version Due: October 1, 2019

*Guest Editors:*
Priya Seetharaman, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta,
priyas at iimcal.ac.in
Saji K Mathew, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, saji at iitm.ac.in
Maung K. Sein, University of Agder, maung.k.sein at uia.no
T. Ravindra Babu, Flipkart, ravindrababu.t at gmail.com

Link to the CFP for the Special Issue is also available on the ISF Journal
Website
<https://static.springer.com/sgw/documents/1643843/application/pdf/attachment+1.pdf>
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Best regards,

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Saji K Mathew, PhD
Professor
Department of Management Studies
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS
Chennai, TN 600 036, INDIA

Email: saji at iitm.ac.in <saji at iitm.ac.in>
Homepage: http://www.doms.iitm.ac.in/index.php/skm

Phone: +91 44 2257 4573 (O)
+91 44 2257 6573 (R)
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