An ancillary event of ICIS 2013
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan, December 14, 2013.

Description

Recently, digital platforms have reached a large presence, playing a remarkable role in our daily life and supporting several activities in both private and professional contexts. For instance, social networks are becoming (or are already) a common way for sharing information, interacting with peers, managing events, linking users and objects (i.e. pictures, video, texts, documents, etc.), and so forth. Furthermore, e-services based on meta-search engines, enable users to enter search criteria once and access several services simultaneously (i.e. booking travels, finding the best price of specific goods, etc.) and store data on users preferences.
These digital platforms manage not only personal user information but also all the data generated by the users when they interact through the platform. As a consequence, the platform owner can access a huge and growing amount of information that can be used for improving the provided services and other business purposes. For instance she/he can profile users by analyzing their online behavior and sell these data to a third party. These phenomena leads to a number of issues on how these data should be managed according with privacy and security requirements. The main objective of the workshop is to discuss the multifaceted aspects linked with these issues.
The workshop welcomes contributions aimed at discussing questions such as: who is the owner of user data? To what extent can the platform owner manage user information? What is the value of user information? To whom does this value belong? What kind of technological and/or organizational arrangements can represent a useful solution?
A special issue of the Journal of Information Privacy and Security (JIPS) will publish updated/revised version of selected papers.

Further information are available at www.cersi.it/jips

Digital Work, Digital Life
June 9 - 11, 2014 - Tel Aviv - ECIS2014 website

Description
Digital Work, Digital Life Our physical reality is increasingly entangled with digital representations. We are continuously connecting to distant others via email, text and social media on our mobile devices. We rely on big data analytics to help us take action in our increasingly complex world and inanimate objects are beginning to communicate with one another in “the Internet of things.” At ECIS 2014 we want to make the exploration of the opportunities and challenges associated with increasing digitality in both our work and everyday lives a key theme. Not only will ECIS 2014 feature conference tracks that focus on digital innovation but it will also introduce new forms of conferencing and interacting. ECIS 2014 will leverage digital technology for participants to meet and interact in new ways. It will also offer a variety of presentation modalities including paper presentations, interactive posters and demos, and developmental roundtable discussions. ECIS 2014 will also include an industry track where experts in such fields as cyber security, mobile technology and digital innovation will share their insights.

Deadline for paper submissions: December 8, 2013
The call for paper is available on http://ecis2014.eu/call-for-papers/

Rules, Regulations and Materiality in Management and Organization Studies
June 26 - 27, 2014 - LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy - Workshop website


Description
The workshop’s fourth session will concentrate on the subject of rules and regulations in organizations. In the context of global competition and the global crisis experienced by most countries all overthe world,the issue ofregulation is more than ever atstake. How are organizations regulated through everyday practices? How are everyday practices entangled with information technologies, work environments, and organizational spaces? How is organizational control implemented through, against, with, everyday material artifacts? To compete globally, how do organizations standardize their products, services, and infrastructures, to embed themselves in global markets? At a more micro‐level, how are these global practices enacted locally and with what effects at the macro‐level (on society)? What are the relationships between norms, practices and artifacts?Do regulations expected to be conveyed by artifacts have any specificity?

Deadline for abstract submissions: January 27, 2014
Call for abstract