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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Dear colleagues</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">We are putting together a new and third special issue in JAIS on information infrastructures following the earlier ones in 2007 and 2014. This call <i>focuses on contemporary innovation in information infrastructures – especially the emergence of new technological capabilities such as block-chain, big data and Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies- and consequent emerging new (inter) organizational forms and processes encompassing contemporary infrastructuring. </i>The special issue builds on and expands the earlier stream of studies on information infrastructures to garner a deeper understanding of the new, emerging forms of digitally enabled infrastructural formations and their design, growth patterns, and local, organizational, societal and institutional uses and impacts. In particular, we encourage multi-level analyses, studies of infrastructures in heterogeneous contexts (developing economies; new industry contexts such as new financial services around cryptocurrencies), and so on. The studies are expected to give due consideration to <b>both organizational and societal level </b>relevance and significance, including <b>double-edged effects </b>that have often been missed in the past analyses of infrastructural formations. These effects include but are not limited to changes in social justice, climate change, immigration, human or personal rights. Personalised technology infrastructures such as social media and smart phones have for example created novel societal problems that range from the accelerating mental health crisis among children and adolescents, growing anomie among social groups, threats to privacy and security, to the breakdown of consensual politics. At the same time, infrastructural solutions are being proposed to resolve many critical challenges of contemporary society including the rising cost of public services, responses to climate change, or creating engines of economic growth by providing personalized health care, optimized agriculture, or new ‘clean’ manufacturing systems. More broadly, societal level information infrastructures play an increasingly central role across many spheres of social organizing and engineering including governance, health care, education and most public services, energy, commerce, culture and entertainment, and even cold and hot warfare between nations.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">The link the longer version of the call for papers can be found at <span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/research/groups/is/iii/index.html">https://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/research/groups/is/iii/index.html</a> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Sincerely</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">--kalle lyytinen</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Kalle Lyytinen [ mailto: </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="mailto:kalle@case.edu"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#0563c1">kalle@case.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">]<br>Distinguished University Professor, Iris S. Wolstein Chair<br></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="https://weatherhead.case.edu/departments/design-and-innovation/"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#0563c1">https://weatherhead.case.edu/departments/design-and-innovation/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Director of Academic Affairs Doctor of Management Programs<br></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://weatherhead.case.edu/degrees/doctor-management/"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#0563c1">http://weatherhead.case.edu/degrees/doctor-management/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><br>Editor-in-Chief Engaged Management Review: </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://emr.case.edu/"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:blue">emr.case.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><br></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="https://case.edu/weatherhead/academics/graduate/mba/online-mba-product-management"><span style="color:blue">Online MBA in Product Management | MBA | Weatherhead School of Management | Case Western Reserve University</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><br>Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7235; </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="https://cwru.zoom.us/j/3334909042"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#0563c1">https://cwru.zoom.us/j/3334909042</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><br>Tel: +1-216-368 5353, fax: +1-216-368 4776, Mobile: +1-216-543 6667<br>Home page URL: </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://home.cwru.edu/~kjl13/"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#0563c1">http://home.cwru.edu/~kjl13/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"> ; <br>Publications: </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yX-R0QwAAAAJ&hl=en"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:blue">scholar.google.com/citations?user=yX-R0QwAAAAJ&hl=en</span></a><span style="mso-ligatures:none"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></body></html>