[Air-L] web culture, geek culture, digital culture?

[Dr. Indira Guzman]

Seems to me that this call for papers is a good one for such discussion.
Please consider sending a paper to this minitrack of the big AMCIS
conference

CFP:  IT Culture and Values: Occupational, Organizational and Societal

AMCIS 2008 - Toronto, Ontario - 14-17 August 2008
Papers Due: March 3, 2008
Mini-track ID: AMCIS-MT-74-2008
Mini-track title: IT Culture and Values: Occupational, Organizational
and Societal
Track: Social Aspects of IS
Conference web site:
http://www.business.mcmaster.ca/amcis2008/callforpapers.htm 

Description:
The goal of research on culture and IT is diverse in both context and
method. Rather than focusing on cross-cultural studies that compare IT
development and use in different countries, the focus of this mini-track
is to provide a forum for research that seeks to understand the values
and assumptions embedded in both the technology, and the human group
served by the technology (i.e. the occupational group, the organization,
the society). Recent articles (e.g. Leidner & Kayworth, 2006) continue
to call for more attention to values and cultural assumptions associated
with IT if we are to be successful in addressing various types of
conflict.
We would like to make AMCIS the main venue for reporting issues and
research associated with occupational, organizational, and social
cultural issues related to IT. Specifically, we would like to see a
forum for exploration of changes in embedded values, assumptions and
social change related to information and communication technologies.
Even the concept of "IT culture" can be interpreted in many ways. We see
this concept of "IT culture" as a complex organizational phenomenon that
is suitable for an AMCIS mini-track.
 
Suggested topics:
*	The IT culture, the information culture, the digital culture,
the online culture, the geek culture, and culture in virtual
environments 
*	Organizational culture, information systems and management 
*	IT cultural issues in organizations and in modern society, such
as the "generational divide", and cultural change due to information and
communication technologies 
*	IT Culture and other issues such as education, security, change,
etc. 
*	IT culture and system conflicts within organizations and society

*	Impact of IT culture on occupational, organizational and
societal use of IT 
*	Occupational Culture, the IT workforce, end-user studies where
culture matters 
*	Methodological issues conducting IT culture research (i.e. case
studies, ethnography, mixed methods) 
*	An assessment of software for supporting culture studies 
*	Ethnography and culture in virtual environments 
 
Papers Due: March 3, 2008
Notification of Acceptance: April 14, 2008
Camera Ready Copy Due: April 28, 2008
 
Mini-track Chair(s):
Michelle Lynn Kaarst-Brown, Syracuse University, mlbrow03 at syr.edu 
Indira R. Guzman, TUI University, iguzman at tuiu.edu
Mini-track gmail account: amcismt742008 at gmail.com 

A complete version of this CFP can be found here:
http://www.business.mcmaster.ca/amcis2008/MT/amcis-pr-074-2008-File001.p
df 

Please let us know if you have questions. 

Best wishes, 

Indira


 
Indira R. Guzman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Information Systems
Assistant Professor of Business Administration 
TUI University; 5665 Plaza Dr. Cypress, CA 90630, U.S.A.
Tel: 714.816.0366 or 1.800.375.9878 Ext.2026; Fax: 714.229.8934
iguzman at tuiu.edu | http://www.indiraguzman.com
 
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