Digitalization holds much promise to enhance organizational performance, reduce social barriers, enable environmental sustainability, and increase accessibility to information, networks, commerce and services. However, the pervasiveness and emphasis on digitalization, if not approached with social consciousness, may have unintended negative consequences for its societal impact. On the one hand, digital transformation efforts can enable a more sustainable society, such as the rise of smart cities or circular economies. On the other hand, digitalization may be inaccessible to certain communities and may further exclude institutionally marginalized communities and individuals across the globe and also has unexpected influence on human dignity. Furthermore, decision-making systems that leverage aspects of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) continue to introduce biased outcomes. Given the complexity and velocity of digitalization, our understanding of its social impact often lags behind its introduction and widespread use.

The Information Systems community is in a unique position to uncover and shed light on the effects digitalization and various applications of information technologies have on our society. This track calls for papers that investigate both the intended and unintended societal impacts of information systems. Studies in this track go a long way to inform regulators, practitioners, users, and researchers from other disciplines. This track welcomes innovative, rigorous and relevant theoretical, empirical, and design studies on societal impacts from interactions with and influences of information systems. Empirical (qualitative and quantitative) studies as well as design-oriented research and conceptual/theoretical papers for theory development will be considered. Various dimensions, including social, economic, cultural and ethical aspects, can be involved in these relationships. We encourage submissions at different levels and cross-levels of analysis. The research questions may derive from a broad spectrum of disciplines.

Track Co-Chairs
Michael Chau, Ph.D., University of Hong Kong
Shuk Ying (Susanna) Ho, Ph.D., The Australian National University
Sundeep Sahay, Ph.D., University of Oslo
Heshan Sun, Ph.D., University of Oklahoma

Schedule
2023
Monday, December 11th
12:00 AM

A Sense of Place: An Affordance Perspective on Social Media Attachment and Social Media Addiction

Bachazile L. Sikhondze, University of Oklahoma
Shaila M. Miranda, University of Oklahoma

12:00 AM

A Study for Sustainable IT: Management Effects of On-Premises and On-Demand IT on Carbon Intensity

Majed Alghamdi, University of Colorado Denver
Navid Aghakhani, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Jiyong Park, University of Georgia
On-Ook Oh, University of Colorado Denver

12:00 AM

Are Sustainability Reports Informative About Firm Value and Performance? A Text Mining Approach

Karthik Srinivasan, University of Kansas
Sunita Rao, Washburn University
Norma A. juma, Washburn University

12:00 AM

Can Broadband Help Curb Pollution? Implications for Marginalized Communities

Wael Jabr, Pennsylvania State University
Suvrat Dhanorkar, Pennsylvania State University

12:00 AM

Coastal Resilience with Social Data Analytics: A Design Science Approach

Carol Lee, Northeastern University
YoungHo Yoon, University of Massachusetts Boston
Pratyush Bharati, University of Massachusetts

12:00 AM

Debunking Sustainability Excuses with Instrumentality and Expectancy Visualizations: A Physiological Perspective

Zhiyin Li, Nanyang Technological University
Ben Choi, Nanyang Technological University

12:00 AM

Divergent Innovation: Directing the Wisdom of Crowd to Tackle Societal Challenges

Chuhan Cao, University of Science and Technology of China
Jiantao Zhu, University of Science and Technology of China
Bingqing Xiong, Deakin University
Eric Lim, UNSW Sydney
Hefu Liu, School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China
Zhao Cai, University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Chee-Wee Tan, Copenhagen Business School

12:00 AM

Do Natural and Technological approaches have any impact on Agri-farms?

Sarin Thampy, IE Business School
Konstantina Valogianni, IE University

12:00 AM

Does Black Music also matter? The Effect of The George Floyd’s Death on Hip-hop Music Streaming in the United States

Yifei Wang, University of Maryland, College Park
Gorkem Turgut Ozer, University of New Hampshire
Anand Gopal, Nanyang Technological University

12:00 AM

Doing Well by Doing Fair? Investigating the Effect of Users’ Fairness Perceptions on Adoption Intentions of Services

Hubertus Waltermann, OMMAX GmbH
Anika Ziegler, LMU Munich School of Management
Simon Paul Engert, LMU Munich School of Management
Thomas Hess, LMU Munich School of Management

12:00 AM

Evaluation Criteria for Sociotechnical Systems for the Digitally Disadvantaged

Sophie Kniepkamp, University of Hagen
Markus Noeltner, University of Hagen
Julia Sarah Kroenung, University of Hagen

12:00 AM

From Words to Results: The Role of IS in Bridging the Sustainability Strategy-Implementation Gap

Franziska Wagner, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Anne Ixmeier, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Johann Kranz, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich

12:00 AM

Improving Accessibility of Educational Content - An Exploratory Data Analysis

Anqi Wu, Florida International University
Arijit Sengupta, Florida International University

12:00 AM

Of Founders and Contributors: The Construction of Authority through Personal Data Digitalization

Daniel Curto-Millet, University of Gothenburg
Olgerta Tona, University of Gothenburg

12:00 AM

P2P lending and Natural Disasters: Is Altruistic Behavior conditional?

Lavlin Agrawal, University at Buffalo
Raj Sharman, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Christian Tiu, University at Buffalo
Juha Joenväärä, Aalto University

12:00 AM

Reassessing the Puzzle of Environmental Management Systems and Their Impact on Firm Performance: A Panel Data Analysis

Maria Huber, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Anne Ixmeier, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Johann Kranz, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich

12:00 AM

Save Our Souls: Study of Twitter Use during India’s COVID-19 Pandemic

Samadrita Bhattacharyya, Indian Institute of Management Udaipur
Probal Mojumder, Indian Institute of Management Udaipur

12:00 AM

The Dark Side of E-sports: The Role of Player Emotions and Cyberbullying in MOBA

Chintha Dammi Kaluarachchi, RMIT University
Chandima Asith Wickramatunga, Swinburne University of Technology
Darshana Dewapriya, Swinburne University of Technology

12:00 AM

The Negative Spillover Effect of Electronic Prescribing for Controlled Substances (EPCS) on Opioid Epidemic

Xiaoyu Liu, National University of Singapore
Nakyung Kyung, National University of Singapore

12:00 AM

Workers' Perceived Algorithmic Exploitation on Online Labor Platforms

Jennifer Jiang, Technical University Dresden
Isabell Lippert, Technische Universität Dresden
Armin Alizadeh, Technical University of Darmstadt

12:00 AM