[AISWorld] CFP [ECIS 2025 Track 15] with Fast-Track to Internet Research [IntR]: Social and Ethical Implications of Using Digital Technologies

[Marten Risius]

We cordially invite you to consider this ECIS track to submit your work on pressing social and ethical concerns surrounding the use of information and communication technologies.
Track 15: Social and Ethical Implications of Using Digital Technologies
ECIS-33 | June 12 – 18, 2025 | Amman, Jordan | https://ecis2025.eu/track-descriptions/#toggle-id-15
Paper Submission Deadline: November 17, 2024, 23:59 CET (Central European Time)

This track aims to develop theoretical and practical insights into issues related to social and ethical implications of using digital technologies, with the goal of using digital technologies to help society jointly thrive towards a sustainable and digitally-enabled future. This track thus aligns with the ECIS 2025 conference theme of “Co-Creating Value for an Intelligent Digital Future”. It answers current calls for socially conscious and value-oriented IS research (Aanestad et al. 2021; Qureshi et al. 2020; Spiekermann et al. 2022).
We welcome papers that address knowledge gaps in (1) the nature of the problem under investigation, (2) negative aspects associated with the problem, and (3) solutions that can mitigate the problem. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
*Undesirable/unintended use of digital technologies: Cyberbullying, addiction, polarisation, vigilantism, doxing, mis/disinformation, illegitimate surveillance, online extremism, digital activism.
*Societal issues of current and emerging digital technologies on the labour market: Unemployment, deskilling, substitution, algorithmic biases, discrimination.
*Responsible use of digital technologies: Ethical digital governance, ethical guidelines for digital technologies, societal concerns in digital technology planning and governance.
*(Un)ethical uses of digital technologies and the data they generate in elections, organisations, marketing.
*Digital inclusion/exclusion, equality/inequality, wellbeing, literacy, diligence, resilience.
*Technology-based prevention and intervention strategies for social and ethical issues.
The track is open to all methodological approaches. We invite both full research and research-in-progress papers.
For further information, please reach out to the track chairs:
Christy Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK, ccheung at hkbu.edu.hk<mailto:ccheung at hkbu.edu.hk>
Marten Risius, University of Applied-Sciences Neu-Ulm, Germany, marten.risius at hnu.de<mailto:marten.risius at hnu.de>
Randy Wong, The University of Auckland, New Zealand, randy.wong at auckland.ac.nz<https://ecis2025.eu/track-descriptions/randy.wong@auckland.ac.nz>