[AISWorld] [AJIS] Special Section CFP: Research on User Involvement Engaging Stakeholders Online: The Bright and Dark Sides

[Ajis Editor]

Hi,

The Australasian Journal of Information Systems is calling for papers on
Research on User Involvement

*Engaging Stakeholders Online: The Bright and Dark Sides*

Organizations are increasingly using the internet to engage their
stakeholders (employees, suppliers, customers, government, and management)
for several positive outcomes such as higher productivity, growing revenue,
and increased profits. Different theoretical models of engagement has been
explored for such online platforms like uses and gratification theory, dual
processing theory, and technology adoption models (Dolan et al., 2016;
Dolan et al., 2019; Grover & Kar, 2019; Grover et al., 2019b; Gupta et al.,
2019).

Though research suggests that engaging stakeholders have a lot of benefits
to the individuals, groups, and organizations, the concerns relating to the
overuse of these engagement practices especially through the internet
cannot be ignored (Shelton & Skalski, 2014; Fox & Moreland, 2015;
Baccarella et al, 2018). This side includes the darker aspects that cover
‘too much of engagement’ such as physical and mental strain leading to
imbalances in the stakeholders’ life. Indeed, there seem to be both
positive and negative consequences of engaging stakeholders online and each
engagement practice or intervention needs to be seen through both these
lenses. Further there has been plethora of evidences surrounding
disinformation and misinformation in existing literature which impacts user
engagement (Aswani et al., 2019).

Such an exploration makes it necessary to view the context through more
than one lens and from the perspectives of multiple stakeholders (Friedman
& Miles, 2002). It enhances the chances of a more holistic theoretical
understanding of this new and complex nature of engagement. To address the
issues of such complexity, mixed-method research designs are often
suitable. A plethora of emerging research methodologies like the
user-generated content mining, social media analytics, artificial
intelligence and other approaches are guiding a lot of such research up and
beyond the traditional approaches based on surveys, expert feedback, and
analyses using inferential statistics (Fan & Gordon, 2014; Rathore et al.,
2017).

Thus, following are the objectives of this special section:

   - To challenge the existing theories in the online engagement literature.
   - To explore different theoretical models of the factors that may have
   dual effects on the stakeholders that are engaged online, whether positive
   or negative.
   - To examine the ways in which internet can itself be a remedy to shift
   stakeholders from the dark side to the bright side of engagement.
   - To establish the need for interventions in such engagement in the
   online communities

*Special Section Editors*

Manish Gupta
Arpan Kumar Kar
Charles Jebarajakirthy


Full details are in the attached document

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*General Call for Papers*

AJIS publishes high quality contributions to the global Information Systems
(IS) discipline with an emphasis on theory and practice on the Australasian
context.

Topics cover core IS theory development and application (the nature of
data, information and knowledge; formal representations of the world, the
interaction of people, organisations and information technologies; the
analysis, design and deployment of information systems; the impacts of
information systems on individuals, organisations and society), IS domains
(e-business, e-government, e-learning, e-law, etc) and IS research
approaches.

Research and conceptual development based in a very wide range of
epistemological methods are welcomed.

All manuscripts undergo double blind reviewing by at least 2 well qualified
reviewers. Their task is to provide constructive, fair, and timely advice
to authors and editor.

AJIS welcomes research and conceptual development of the IS discipline
based
in a very wide range of epistemologies. Different types of research paper
need to be judged by different criteria. Here are some assessment criteria
that may be applied:

•       Relevance - topic or focus is part of the IS discipline.
•       Effectiveness - paper makes a significant contribution to the IS
body of knowledge.
•       Impact - paper will be used for further research and/or practice.
•       Uniqueness - paper is innovative, original & unique.
•       Conceptual soundness - theory, model or framework made explicit.
•       Argument - design of the research or investigation is sound;
methods appropriate.
•       Clarity - Topic is clearly stated; illustrations, charts & examples
support content.
•       Reliability - data available; replication possible.
•       References - sound, used appropriately, and sufficient –
appropriate AJIS articles referenced
•       Style - appropriate language, manuscript flows.

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle
that making research freely available to the public supports a greater
global exchange of knowledge.

AJIS has been published since 1993 and appears in the Index of Information
Systems Journals, is ranked "A" by both the Australian Council of
Professors and Heads of Information Systems and the Australian Business
Deans' Council.

In addition to web distribution, AJIS is distributed by EBSCO, it is listed
in Cabell's International Directory and is indexed by EBSCO, Elsevier,
Scopus and the Directory of Open Access Journals.

Thanks for the continuing interest in our work,

Cheers
Associate Professor John Lamp
Editor-in-Chief, Australasian Journal of Information Systems
http://journal.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/
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