Dear colleagues
Please find attached a Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) on Contemporary Innovation in Information Infrastructures.
Our pervasively digitized society is permeated by a wide and growing range of large-scale information technology applications that extend in use and function over space and time, a development that has motivated the creation of the term ‘information infrastructure’ (Star and Ruhleder 1996; Hanseth and Monteiro 1996; Hanseth and Lyytinen 2010; Tilson et al 2010). Such applications are no longer discrete ‘systems’ confined within organizational boundaries and serving specific organizational functions such as keeping economic records, or paying salaries. Rather they are open, complex, ever-expanding socio-technical assemblages – information or digital infrastructures -- composed of algorithms, data, material devices for storage, processing and sharing and related social and technical communities. The exponentially-growing scale and complexity of such information infrastructures go well beyond what has been characterized by traditional terminologies of information technology systems (Orlikowski and Iacono 2001), digital artefacts (Gregor et al. 2020), or digital platforms (Constantinides et al. 2018, Parker et al. 2017). Due to their complexity, dynamism and particular systemic features such assemblages deserve to be analyzed as a distinctive form of technology artefacts in their own right (Tilson et al 2010; Hanseth and Lyytinen 2010).
We invite original papers that engage with, scrutinize and highlight contemporary developments in a world composed of increasingly pervasive, rapidly changing information infrastructures and their component systems integrated into daily routines and widely shared services provided across time and space. We appreciate generally any analytic work that mobilises and resonates with the broad aims and approach outlined above in novel, interesting ways, and explores empirically and/or theoretically the landscape and manifestations of ongoing digitalization and expansion of infrastructures within the contemporary society.
Papers might engage with (or go beyond) the following Indicative topics
- Infrastructuring of Platforms, Platformisation of Infrastructures;
- Governance of/by Information Infrastructures;
- Societal Challenges addressed through Information Infrastructures;
- Approaches to Data & AI Informed by Information Infrastructure Perspectives;
- Theoretical Frames and Methodologies Salient to Infrastructure Studies.
Deadline for initial submissions to JAIS July 30, 2025
The full call text is here:
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Seasons. greetings
Robin Williams
Professor Robin Williams
Director, Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation
Science, Technology and Innovation Studies Subject Group,
School of Social and Political Sciences
The University of Edinburgh
Old Surgeon's Hall
Edinburgh EH1 1LZ
Mobile: 07925-372184
email: R.Williams@ed.ac.uk
http://www.issti.ed.ac.uk/
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