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

IT Culture and Values: Occupational, Organizational and Societal
(Call for papers)
AMCIS 2008 - Toronto, Ontario - 14-17 August 2008

Papers Due: March 3, 2008
Notification of Acceptance: April 14, 2008
Camera Ready Copy Due: April 28, 2008
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. 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
thatis 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
Mini-track Chair(s):
Michelle Lynn Kaarst-Brown, Syracuse University, mlbrow03@syr.edu
Indira R. Guzman, TUI University, iguzman@tuiu.edu
Mini-track gmail account: amcismt742008@gmail.com
A complete version of this CFP can be found here:
http://www.business.mcmaster.ca/amcis2008/MT/amcis-pr-074