From fichman at indiana.edu Tue Mar 13 12:39:54 2018 From: fichman at indiana.edu (Fichman, Pnina) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 16:39:54 +0000 Subject: [Sigtis-l] CFP HICSS-52> Global, International, and Cross-Cultural Issues in IS Message-ID: <2EC8365A-5F3C-4B21-AD42-A9753B468199@indiana.edu> CFP HICSS52 Minitrack title: Global, International, and Cross-Cultural Issues in IS Track: Internet and the Digital Economy January 8-11, 2019 Maui, Hawaii, USA Conference Website: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/ Author Guidelines: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-and-minitracks/authors/ Globalization has historically been tied to technological innovation, and the present era of a networked information society is no different. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have provided the infrastructure for multinational businesses, created new cultural connections irrespective of geographic boundaries and distances, and allowed an increasingly mobile global population to be connected to their friends, families, and cultures no matter where they are. The issues surrounding global, international, and cross cultural issues in Information Systems (IS) attracted much scholarly attention and have been explored under myriad contexts. Our minitrack focuses on the sociotechnical dynamics and the ways in which the Internet affects people, groups, organizations, and societies. We are in particular interested in the impact of global, international, and cross-cultural issues on ICT development, implementation and use across the globe. The minitrack welcomes submissions that relate to all aspects of global IS, or IS research situated in a global, international or cross-cultural context. The minitrack is open to all methodological approaches and perspectives. We are interested in empirical and theoretical work that addresses these and related socio-technical issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ? The impacts of cultural values on: 1) ICT design, adoption, and use; 2) Policies and practices of big data collection and use. ? Cross cultural studies of: 1) ICT adoption, use and development; 2) Quantification of self at work, by individuals or organizations; 3) Big data collection and use. ? Issues relating to: 1) Globally distributed teams; 2) Internet adoption and the digital society at the national level; 3) Global knowledge management; 4) Cross-national legislation and regulation; 4) Global ICT governance; 5) Global Cloud sourcing strategies; 6) Effects of global social computing on work organization and practices; Global impacts of big data on governments, multinational companies, NGOs and other organizations. ? Single country studies showing implications for other locations or results different from other contexts. ? Multi-country studies of ICT adoption, use, and development. IMPORTANT DATES - April 15: Paper submission begins - June 15: Paper submissions deadline - August 17: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection - September 22: Deadline for authors to submit final manuscript for publication - October 1: Deadline for at least one author to register for HICSS-52 Conference Website: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/ Author Guidelines: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-and-minitracks/authors/ Minitrack organizers Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University, Bloomington Email: fichman at indiana.edu Edward W.N. Bernroider, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Institute for Information Management and Control, Vienna, Austria Email: edward.bernroider at wu.ac.at -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Gosselck at demogr.mpg.de Thu Mar 15 11:03:22 2018 From: Gosselck at demogr.mpg.de (Gosselck, Antje) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 15:03:22 +0000 Subject: [Sigtis-l] Job Offer: 2-3 highly qualified Post-Docs / Research Scientists Message-ID: <5fdf5b12192044bfbcc50e06da2fb0f0@demogr.mpg.de> +++ Apologies for cross postings +++ The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) is recruiting 2-3 highly qualified Post-Docs / Research Scientists to join the newly established Laboratory of Digital and Computational Demography. The MPIDR is one of the leading demographic centers in the world. It is part of the Max Planck Society, a network of over 80 institutes that form Germany's premier basic-research organization. Max Planck Institutes have an established record of world-class, foundational research in the sciences, technology, and the humanities, and they offer a unique environment that combines the best aspects of an academic setting and a research laboratory. The Laboratory of Digital and Computational Demography, headed by MPIDR Director Emilio Zagheni, is looking for candidates with a background in Demography, Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, Sociology, Geography, Applied Mathematics, or related disciplines. The successful candidate must have a PhD (or receive it soon) and is expected to conduct cutting-edge research in the field of Digital and Computational Demography. Priority areas for the Laboratory include: 1. Using Web and Social Media data to study demographic processes, like migration, fertility, health indicators, intergenerational relationships, and gender disparities. 2. Developing innovative forms of data collection for demographic research (e.g., surveys via Web and Social Media advertisement platforms or data collected via sensors, tracking devices, or Web Apps). 3. Leveraging agent-based models and microsimulation to understand individual- and population-level processes. 4. Evaluating the impact of the digitalization of our lives on demographic behavior and population processes. Depending on interest and fit, the successful candidate would have the opportunity to participate in ongoing collaborative initiatives with leading scholars in digital and computational demography based at other institutions. These include Ingmar Weber (Qatar Computing Research Institute) and Francesco Billari (Bocconi University). Applications have to be submitted in English online via https://www.demogr.mpg.de/go/apply-dcdrs/ and include the following documents: 1. A Curriculum Vitae 2. A letter of interest (Max 1 page) Briefly state why you are interested in joining the MPIDR, how the MPIDR could foster your professional development and career trajectory, and in which ways your interests fit the research strengths of the MPIDR. 3. A Research Statement (Max 2 pages) Briefly describe your research accomplishments as well as ongoing and future research plans. Please also describe your technical skills, areas of expertise, as well as the type of advanced training that you would like to receive as a research scientist. 4. The names and contact information for 3 academic references 5. One or two writing samples or copies of publications To receive full consideration, applications should be received by April 8, 2018. The starting date is flexible but no later than Fall 2018. Successful applicants will be offered a 3-year contract, with remuneration commensurate to experience (starting from approx. 50,000 EUR gross per year) and based on the salary structure of the German public sector (?ffentlicher Dienst, TV?D Bund). For inquiries about the positions, please contact sekzagheni at demogr.mpg.de. The Institute values diversity and is committed to increasing the representation of minorities, women, and people with physical disabilities. Individuals from minorities thus are especially welcome to apply. 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URL: From fichman at indiana.edu Thu Mar 15 11:36:04 2018 From: fichman at indiana.edu (Fichman, Pnina) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 15:36:04 +0000 Subject: [Sigtis-l] CFP HICSS-52> Collective Intelligence and Crowds Message-ID: Minitrack: Collective Intelligence and Crowds HICSS 52 http://hicss.hawaii.edu/ Track: Digital and Social Media January 8-11, 2019, Maui, Hawaii, USA This minitrack is open to analysis of collective intelligence, knowledge creation, and crowdsourcing. We think that assemblages of people and machines are making new forms of organization possible, and we are interested in research that explores these new forms of organization. The minitrack invites papers that look at crowd sourcing, at idea generation, at remixing communities, and hybrid organizations in which learning machines plays a strong role. We live surrounded by socially constructed identities ? organizations, nations, websites ? all of which are constituted through a complex interplay of interactions, a kind of distributed cognition. These Internet platforms allow people to aggregate knowledge from socially distant areas. They also allow diverse groups of people ? and maybe autonomous learning machines ? to negotiate identities. With these socio-technical configurations we can build collective intelligences that themselves will steer the quest for knowledge. These collectives can be self-catalyzing, deciding individually or collaboratively what to do next, out of which novel and practical ideas emerge. While these open design collectives rely on organic growth and slow embedding of members in the network, alternative structures based on crowds can be assembled more rapidly. Between the two extremes are a host of different organizational and social structures, in which committed members of a community create, improve, and share ideas. The output of these socio-technical systems often takes the form of digital media, and their traces are varied, ranging from ephemeral short messages to curated collaborative knowledge repositories. We are interested in 1) papers that observe, analyze, or visualize these socio-technical structures and their outputs: for example, analyses of open design and open source collectives 2) papers that analyze the phenomena of crowdsourcing, collective intelligence and collaborative mass knowledge production; 3) design research that creates and evaluates new tools and processes for crowds and communities; and 4) papers that simulate the production processes and outcomes through software. We are open to papers that explore unusual ways of modeling emergent organizations: models that demonstrate or reflect the influence of social systems on user behaviors, models that consider the multiple connections between people, technology, and institutions, models of technological and social affordances, models that break personal identity into sub-relations, models that examine the emergence of roles, identity, and institutions, as well as socio-technical models of deviance and disruption. We are particularly interested in papers that apply the foundational ideas of James Coleman, James March, Herb Simon, Mark Granovetter, Harrison White, Charles Tilly and related scholars to modern information systems. We are open to papers concerned with how to visualize large scale social phenomena. And papers that analyze the role machine algorithms and human processes play in our politics and our personal interactions. In sum, the content of the minitrack is open to analysis of collective intelligence, new sociotechnical configuration of knowledge creation, and crowdsourcing. Included also is the analysis of social interaction as a way of describing underlying social structure. Thus, the track is open to a wide range of content areas that lend themselves to the analysis of relations between people, collectives, and machines, as well as the products produced as a result of these relations. IMPORTANT DATES - April 15: Paper submission begins - June 15: Paper submissions deadline - August 17: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection - September 22: Deadline for authors to submit final manuscript for publication - October 1: Deadline for at least one author to register for HICSS-52 Conference Website: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/ Author Guidelines: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-and-minitracks/authors/ Minitrack organizers Pnina Fichman fichman at indiana.edu Donald Steiny steiny at steiny.com Jeffrey Nickerson jnickerson at stevens.edu ------------------------ Pnina Fichman, Professor Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University, Bloomington http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: