Please see the call for papers for the 15th Americas Conference on Information systems (AMCIS 2009) on 6-9 August 2009 in San Francisco, which includes the mini-track “Socio-Technical Aspects of Information Systems” on the following topics:
- Social informatics
- The application of social theory to information systems (eg. Structuration Theory, Actor-Network Theory, StructurANTion Theory)
- Human and organisational aspects of information Systems
- Balancing of social and technical factors in ISD and IS
- Critiques of the socio-technical approach
- Case studies of socio-technical analysis of IS
- Comparative studies (ie. between sectors, countries, cultures, etc.) of socio-technical analyses of IS
- Comparative analyses of socio-technical change and IS
- Global/local (or ‘glocal’) balance of IS within a socio-technical context
Deadline for papers: 20 February 2009.
Tags: AMCIS 2009