[AISWorld] Call for Submissions - JAIS Workshop - Being Information Systems Scholars: What, why and how?

[Monideepa Tarafdar]

Being Information Systems Scholars: What, why and how?
JAIS Virtual Workshop, October 13, Friday
9am to 11am Eastern Time (US)

Topic and Focus:
JAIS is organizing a workshop on what it means in the current times, to be an Information Systems scholar. Never before has the scholarly work of IS researchers had the scope and potential to address such a wide range of topics, reach such a varied audience and transform so many areas of human life. And yet, with the seeming abundance of socially generated data, rapidly developing computational social science methods, and generative AI, never before have we faced the prospect of fundamental transformations as we do now, in what we do, and how and why we do it.  At such an inflection point in the IS discipline's evolution, this workshop will bring together IS colleagues from across the AIS regions, to reflect on the goals, means and ends of our research. Such reflection is necessary, for scoping out our spheres of influence as scholars and for our personal journeys of learning and contributing.

To participate:
Pick any two questions from the list below and write your thoughts about them. Your write-up should- (1) mention your professional affiliation/details; (2) be contextualized to your own experiences and challenges regarding things you have done; (3) indicate why you think the workshop will be helpful for you; and (4) not exceed 2 sides of double-spaced TNR 12.  Send your write-ups in an MS word file to the following email: jaisws2023 at gmail.com<mailto:jaisws2023 at gmail.com> by July 25, 2023. Selected submissions will be grouped into discussion round tables, mentored/facilitated by IS scholars from the JAIS editorial board . The workshop will be a mix of roundtable and plenary activities. We invite submissions from all IS scholars who are tenure-track/tenured/post-doc.

Points of focus:
1.            Why do we choose the research topics we do?
2.            Who do we wish to help/ what do we wish to transform with our research and why?
3.            How do we find the resources (data, money, analysis tools) for our projects?
4.            How do we manage our portfolio of research projects?
5.            How will new tools (e.g. such as tools for natural language processing and generative technologies) change what we do and how we do it?
6.            Who do we write for and why?
7.            What are key do's and don'ts of research collaborations?

We wish to encourage diverse views. Within that framing, we are particularly interested in innovative and proactive stances and approaches to - (1) building and strengthening cumulative IS knowledge; (2) influence outside academia - practice and policy; (3) working with socially generated large data sets; (4) working in multidisciplinary teams and projects; (5) using generative AI technology in the research process. We particularly encourage early career faculty to participate.

Further Information:
1.            Date: October 13, 9am to 11am Eastern Time (US)
2.            Facilitators:
Hillol Bala, Indiana University
Roberta Bernardi, University of Bristol
Michelle Carter, Manchester University
Daniel Chen, Texas Christian University
Yulin Fang, Hong Kong University
Varun Grover, University of Arkansas
Dirk Hovorka, University of Sydney
Mathew Jones, Cambridge University
Dorothy Leidner, University of Virginia
David Preston, Texas Christian University
Ulrike Schultze, University of Groningen
Heshan Sun, University of Oklahoma
Monideepa Tarafdar, University of Massachusetts Amherst
3.            Deadline for participant write-ins: July 25, 2023
4.            Participants informed: August 31, 2023


Sincerely,

Monideepa Tarafdar
Yulin Fang
David Preston
[Workshop organizers]

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Professor Monideepa Tarafdar
Charles J. Dockendorff Endowed Professor
Isenberg School of Management
University of Massachusetts Amherst
https://www.isenberg.umass.edu/people/monideepa-tarafdar