SIGPrag
SIGPrag Events at ICIS 2011 in Shanghai
This year SIGPrag is organizing two collocated events at ICIS. Part of the day will be devoted to the regular annual SIGPrag Workshop (including paper sessions and business meeting) and part of the day will be devoted to a developmental workshop for those interested in submitting their work to the upcoming MISQ special issue on “Information Systems for Symbolic Action Social Media and Beyond”. Call for papers with further details can be found below.
Submissions to the MISQ developmental workshop are to be sent as an email attachment to misq.symbolic.action@gmail.com no later than August 1, 2011.
Submissions to the regular 2011 SIGPrag Workshop are to be submitted through http://sprouts.aisnet.org/ no later than September 16, 2011.
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CFP: SIGPrag 2011 at ICIS in Shanghai
Get Pragmatic – Get Connected!
In the IS field there is a growing recognition of the importance of theorizing the IT artefact and its organizational and societal context from a pragmatic, communicative, and action-oriented perspective. The aim of the AIS Special Interest Group on Pragmatist IS Research (SIGPrag) is to provide a much-needed centre of gravity and to facilitate exchange of ideas and further development of this area of IS scholarship. The first SIGPrag scientific event was held in Paris at ICIS 2008 followed by events at Phoenix at ICIS 2009 in Phoenix and ICIS 2010 in St. Louis at ICIS 2010. SIGPrag now invites researchers to contribute papers advancing its central theme: theorizing the IT artefact and its organizational and societal context from a pragmatic, design and action-oriented perspective.
SIGPrag 2011 will address pragmatic issues across the full spectrum of information systems research, including areas such as systems development, social software, social media, social responsibility, business in society, business modelling, sustainable development, digital innovation, and IT in the supply chain. Diverse aspects of pragmatic theory, pragmatic research, and pragmatic methods are of special interest and especially their relation to other research streams such as design science research and action research. How can pragmatic IS research make a difference in practice and theory?
Submission will undergo peer-review and accepted papers will be presented at the SIGPrag meeting in conjunction with ICIS 2011 in Shanghai, China. Those interested should submit their paper through the Sprouts review system by September 1st, 2011. Proceedings will be published through Sprouts. Submissions should follow the format of the ICIS template (see http://icis2011.aisnet.org/). Please indicate whether the submission is a complete research paper or a research in progress.
The format of SIGPrag 2011 will be highly interactive and developmental. Although we are soliciting high-quality, completed research papers, the assumption is that authors will develop these further for future submission to journals. Each author is therefore asked to identify which journal would be the primary future target for his or her work. This will be factored into the selection of reviewers and discussants at the event in Shanghai as means to provide as much as possible actionable advice to increase the success of the subsequent journal submission. Submitting a paper also incurs an obligation to serve as discussant of another paper at the workshop if one’s own paper is accepted.
SIGPrag 2011 will be co-organized with the development workshop for the MISQ Special Issue: Information Systems for Symbolic Action - Social Media and Beyond. For those interested in submitting to the developmental workshop for this MISQ Special Issue please refer to the CFP below.
Important dates for SIGPrag 2011:
* September 16, 2011: Paper Submission
* October 15, 2011: Notification of acceptance
* November 1, 2011: Final Papers due
* December 4, 2011: SIGPrag workshop at ICIS 2011 in Shanghai, China (Dec 4-7)
Program co-chairs:
Mikael Lind, Viktoria Institute & University of Borås
Michel Avital, University of Amsterdam
Jan vom Brocke, University of Lichtenstein
Organizing committee:
Daniel Rudmark, University of Borås & Viktoria Institute
Sandra Haraldson, University of Borås & Viktoria Institute
More info at http://www.sigprag.org/
Call for Papers:
MIS Quarterly Special Issue on Information Systems for Symbolic Action:
Social Media and Beyond
Submission Deadline: February 1, 2012
Guest Editors: Mark Aakhus, Rutgers University (aakhus@rutgers.edu)
Pär J. Ågerfalk, Uppsala University (par.agerfalk@im.uu.se)
Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve University (kalle@po.cwru.edu)
Dov Te'eni, Tel Aviv University (teeni@tau.ac.il)
This special issue aims to foster Information Systems research in understanding, illustrating, and
explaining how IS forms an inherent aspect of human activity and a means of symbolic action.
We invite submissions that advance IS theory and research on the intersection of information
systems and symbolic action through theoretical review, analysis, and development, empirical
and design studies, or large-scale empirics and methodology development. Central issues to be
tackled revolve around novel conceptualizations of IS, uses and design of IS, and methods for
investigating IS as grounds, means, and outcomes of symbolic action.
Potential authors that would appreciate early feedback regarding the suitability of their material
to the special issue are encouraged to submit a research-in-progress version of their manuscript
to a developmental workshop that will be organized in conjunction with ICIS 2011. (Potential
authors may also send inquiries to the editors that include extended abstracts for advice about
relevance to the special issue.) The plan is to invite authors of papers that pass the first round of
review to a second developmental workshop in conjunction with ECIS 2012. These workshops
are not mandatory but are strongly encouraged as they aim to support authors in preparing and
developing their manuscripts. Both workshops will be hosted by the AIS Special Interest Group
on Pragmatist IS Research (SIGPrag). More information about these events will be announced
at http://www.sigprag.org/.
For the ICIS 2011 workshop, please submit your manuscript to misq.symbolic.action@gmail.com no later than August 1, 2011. Acceptance decisions for the ICIS workshop can be expected by early October.
The full call for papers is available on the MIS Quarterly’s web site at http://www.misq.org/.
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Special Interest Group on Pragmatist IS research
In the IS field there is a growing recognition of the importance of theorizing the IT artifact and its organizational and societal context from a pragmatic and action-oriented perspective. Over the years, a number of events and journal special issues have been devoted to this topic (e.g. the Language/Action Perspective workshops 1996-2005 and special issues of CACM and Data and Knowledge Engineering, the Understanding Sociotechnic al Action workshops and special issue of IJTHI, the Action in Language, Organizations and Information Systems conferences and EJIS special issue, and the Pragmatic Web conference). The aim of SIGPrag is to provide a much needed centre of gravity and to facilitate exchange of ideas and further development of this area of IS scholarship.
In summary, pragmatist IS research rests on the following set of assumptions:
- Human life is a life of activity.
- Humans do things that effect changes in their environment and/or within themselves.
- Doing permeates thinking, conceptualizations and language use.
- Human consciousness is a practical one that is in constant interplay with interventive, investigative, and evaluative actions.
- Practical consciousness is formed by experience from previous actions and participation in social contexts.
- IT and information systems are fundamentally symbolic language systems.
- Linguistically expressed collective presuppositions, norms and categories (such as those embedded in IT and information systems) serve human activity and life.
- The true value of IT and information systems lies in their potential to support human communication and collaboration central to human activity and life.
Contact:
Prof. Pär J. Ågerfalk (President)
Dr. Mark Aakhus (Secretary)
Dr. Mikael Lind (Treasurer)
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