[AISWorld] Final Call for Papers – HICSS-57: Dark Sides of Digitalization Mini-track

[Hamed Qahri-Saremi]

Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS 57)
January 3-6, 2024 @ Waikiki, Hawaii
Mini-track: Dark Sides of Digitalization
Track: Organizational Systems and Technology
https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-57/organizational-systems-and-technology/#dark-sides-of-digitalization-minitrack


Over the past seven years, this mini-track has succeeded in creating an engaging forum for advancing our understanding of the dark sides of digitalization at individual, organizational, and societal and the efficacy of solutions for mitigating them. Building on this tradition, for the eighth year, we invite you to submit your theoretical and empirical papers examining the negative consequences of digitalization and IT use at all levels to this mini-track. The objective of this minitrack is to focus not only on the antecedents, development processes, and consequences of numerous phenomena related to the unexpected negative effects of digitalization, but also on potential strategies, techniques, and design considerations for behavioral and technological interventions. We seek, based on this forum of discussions, to provide practitioners (e.g., platform owners, IT developers, managers, psychologists, and policymakers) in a multitude of contexts with a deeper understanding of the potential consequences regarding the dark sides of digitalization. Further, we hope this mini-track helps to shape guidelines for designing and implementing utilitarian and hedonic IT artifacts while minimizing their potential negative consequences.

Submissions are welcome and encouraged from a variety of theoretical foundations (e.g., information systems, psychology, cognitive science, decision sciences, sociology, social networks, organizational behavior, neuroscience, computer science, marketing, and informatics). We invite relevant and rigorous studies without restriction for the methodologies used, units of analyses, and levels of theorization. Submitted papers can focus on, but are not limited to, the following themes related to the potential dark sides of digitalization. We acknowledge that new “dark sides of digitalization” phenomena will emerge over time, and we are open to topics that may extend this list.

• Problematic IT use behaviors
• IT-related addictions, misuse, and abuse
• Algorithmic bias, fairness, and aversion
• Cyber loafing
• Cyberbullying 
• Dark sides of artificial intelligence and/or robots
• Dark sides of big data
• Dark sides of digital assistants and wearable devices
• Deceptive computer-mediated communication
• Misinformation, disinformation, and fake news
• Disrupted work-life balance due to digitalization
• IT interruptions 
• Technostress
• Adverse physiological effects of digitalization 
• Technology-mediated dangerous behaviors
• Impulsive use of IT
• Security and privacy concerns of digitalization


Important Dates:

June 15              Submission Deadline
August 17          Notification of acceptance/rejection
September 4      Deadline for authors whose papers are conditionally accepted to submit a revised manuscript
September 22    Deadline for authors to submit final Manuscript for publication
October 1          Deadline for at least one author of each paper to register for the conference


Mini-track Co-Chairs:

Hamed Qahri-Saremi
Colorado State University
Hamed.Qahri-Saremi at colostate.edu <mailto:Hamed.Qahri-Saremi at colostate.edu> 

Ofir Turel
University of Melbourne
oturel at unimelb.edu.au <mailto:oturel at unimelb.edu.au> 

Isaac Vaghefi
Baruch College, The City University of New York
isaac.vaghefi at baruch.cuny.edu <mailto:isaac.vaghefi at baruch.cuny.edu> 


Should you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch with any of the mini-track co-chairs.

Best Regards
Hamed, Ofir, & Isaac