Call for submissions for a special issue on Information Infrastructures at JAIS

[Kalle Lyytinen]

Dear colleagues



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 *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. *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 *both organizational and societal
level *relevance and significance, including *double-edged effects *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.



The link the longer version of the call for papers can be found at
https://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/research/groups/is/iii/index.html



Sincerely



--kalle lyytinen





Kalle Lyytinen [ mailto: kalle at case.edu]
Distinguished University Professor, Iris S. Wolstein Chair
https://weatherhead.case.edu/departments/design-and-innovation/

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