[AISWorld] 2nd CFP: HICSS 57 2024 -- Informing Research: Engaging with Futures

[Dirk Hovorka]

HICSS-57 2024 Mini-track: Informing Research: Engaging with Futures
(Organizational Systems and Technology track)
January 3-6 2024
The "Informing Research: Engaging with Futures" mini-track invites submissions which explore future and possible worlds rather than analysis of what is or has been. We are looking for contributions that break with well-trodden empirical and conceptual conventions to help academia build a novel set of concepts and instruments to generate useful theory for shaping digital future(s).

For us, this objective is soundly anchored in the Information Systems discipline's increasing interest in the process and implications of global, societal, economic, and individual digitalization. We particularly think of this challenge as one where analyses and extrapolation from the present fails to provide meaningful insights beyond projecting that status quo into the future, albeit in a more technicized version of itself. Rather, we seek ways for science to become more insightful, informative, and instructive to active shapers of post-digital life worlds- or even to become an active shaper itself.

Exciting submissions will approach the challenge we are presenting by making either a theoretical contribution or a methodological one. In the former, we are looking for advances in the role and development of forward-looking theory in IS research and encourage research that rethinks the processes of theory formulation, theory replacement, or theory envisioning. The latter will contribute to a collective effort to build methods for engaging with futures and possible worlds. Current future-studies approaches (e.g., world models, scenarios; technology and/or social foresight) could be extended into new realms. Of particular interest are papers which present speculative or creative processes regarding specific methodological setups of studies engaging with post-digital futures or ways of engaging those with a stake in the future. Papers which use the future as a site of inquiry to inform present research and action have a great potential of being considered for our mini-track's intended program.

We continue our mini-track's mission to challenge scholars to focus attention on "new phenomena, disclose new perspectives on phenomena, and illuminate new research agendas and programs" against the background of, and pushing past, existing theorization, conceptualization and methods. We encourage interested contributors to review the mini-track's calls for papers from previous years to further illuminate the thinking which will guide our review and editorial decision processes.

Possible topics include but are not restricted to:

  *   Researching futures to inform present research
  *   Anthropologic, ethnographic or speculative design approaches
  *   Ethical futures: what do we own the future?
  *   Beyond digital trajectories: Modeling future worlds
  *   Precautionary principles: guardrails for dual-use technologies?
  *   Literary forms: Utopias, dystopias and SF as speculative science?
  *   Non-empirical approaches to knowledge
  *   Bridging epistemic distance: Speculation in Science
  *   Digital Transformation in a digital world
  *   Reconceptualizing the organization
Prospective authors are advised that the track does not look for topical contributions which are best submitted to one of the conference's other (mini-)tracks. Papers in this mini-track must explicitly provide the basis for future-leaning conceptualizations of phenomenon or provide insight on how to provide such concepts.

=== Important Dates: ===

- June 15, 2023, 11:59 pm (HST): Manuscript submission deadline
- August 17, 2023, 11:59 pm (HST): Notification of acceptance/rejection
- September 22, 2023, 11:59 pm (HST): Submission of final manuscript for proceeding publication
- October 1, 2023, 11:59 pm (HST): Registration deadline (at least one author must register)
- January 3-6, 2024: HICSS-57 conference dates

For further conference details, schedules and submission guidelines please see:
http://www.hicss.org/

We hope to see you in Waikiki in January 2024!

Mahalo!

Mini-track Co-Chairs:
Dirk S. Hovorka
Professor of Systems and Design
University of Sydney Business School
dirk.hovorka at sydney.edu.au<mailto:dirk.hovorka at sydney.edu.au>

Benjamin Mueller
Professor for Digital Business
University of Bremen, Germany
muellerb at uni-bremen.de<mailto:muellerb at uni-bremen.de>

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Dirk S. Hovorka
Professor of Systems and Design
University of Sydney
NSW, 2006 AU
T +61 2 9351 2949
Senior Editor/Research Perspectives  (JAIS)
2018 BGS Professor of the Year
Accredited University-wide Peer Reviewer of Teaching<https://canvas.sydney.edu.au/courses/16284/pages/12-dot-1-peer-review-of-teaching-module-overview> (2023)
http://sydney.edu.au/business/staff/dirk.hovorka