Digitalization has moved beyond enabling organizational efficiency and market connectivity to becoming a defining infrastructure of everyday life and collective futures. While digital technologies continue to hold promise for inclusion and well-being, their societal consequences are neither uniform nor inevitable, often differing across social, institutional, and regional contexts. In particular, consequences emerge through complex interactions among technologies, institutions, cultures, political power and everyday practices. Digital technologies may create new forms of vulnerability and inequality, but at the same time they facilitate opportunities for participation and collective action. The speed and scale of technological change continue to outpace our theoretical and empirical understanding of its consequences. It is therefore imperative for IS scholarship to engage not only with impacts, but also with responsibilities and the broader societal implications. The IS community is uniquely positioned to examine how digital technologies are socially embedded and politically consequential.

Track Chairs:
Priya Seetharaman, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
Helle Zinner Henriksen, Copenhagen Business School
Che-Wei Liu, Arizona State University

Schedule
2026
Monday, December 14th
12:00 AM

Actors or Actions? Rethinking Platform Governance in Pre-Platform Crisis Settings

Liudmila Zavolokina, University of Lausanne
Gianluca Miscione, University College Dublin
Iuliia Spycher, University of Bern
Kazem Haki, Geneva School of Business Administration

12:00 AM

Am I My True Self? Identity Formation in Online Spaces: Investigating Transgender Identity

Erica Harrington, The University of Auckland
Gabrielle Peko, The University of Auckland
Shohil Kishore, The University of Auckland

12:00 AM

Anti-Immigrant Hate Crimes and Cross-Border Marriage Markets: Evidence from a Marriage Platform

Eva Dziadula, University of Notre Dame
Anand Gopal, Nanyang Technological University
Sabari Rajan Karmegam, George Mason University
Madeline Zavodny, University of North Florida

12:00 AM

Clean Slates and Lasting Scars: Assessing Reintegration and Policy Design under Colorado's Clean Slate Act

Mingrui Zhang, University of Denver
Yuwei Zhou, Indiana University
Young Jin Lee, University of Denver

12:00 AM

Data Extractivism and the Role of Licensing – A Critical Realist Case Study in East African Data Ecosystems

Felicitas Feick, University of Bayreuth
Thomas Kreuzer, FIM Research Center, University of Bayreuth
Jan Nehring, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Anna Maria Oberländer, FIM Research Center, University of Bayreuth
Tobias Bernhard Plank, Research Center for Information Management (FIM)
Samuel Rutunda, Digital Umuganda

12:00 AM

Designing for Relational Similarity: Facial Similarity and Racial Disadvantage in Digital Labor Platforms

Yuting Jiang, Grenoble Ecole de Management
Yijing Li, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Fei Liu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

12:00 AM

Developing a Theory of the Problem of Acoustic Surveillance

Grant Oosterwyk, University of Cape Town
Ojelanki Ngwenyama, University of Cape Town

12:00 AM

Digital Platforms and Housing Market Transparency for Young Tenants

Garan Kim, University of Oklahoma
Keehyung Kim, University of Oklahoma

12:00 AM

Do Better Conditions Always Lead to More Use? Evidence from Digital Payments in Brazil

Fabricio M. Trevisan, EAESP, FGV

12:00 AM

From Description to Intention: How Goal-Oriented Labels Drive Engagement in Online Peer Support Platforms

Yu Kan, Indiana University
Lu Yan, Indiana University
Jun Tan, University of Washington

12:00 AM

How GenAI Adoption Affects Job Demand: Evidence from India

Derek Tran, University of South Florida
Probal Mojumder, Indian Institute of Management Udaipur
Sunil Mithas, University of South Florida
Samadrita Bhattacharyya, Indian Institute of Management Udaipur

12:00 AM

Indigenous Resurgence through Artificial Intelligence: Reconnecting Wendat Myths and Legends with Storied Places

Alexander Chung, Université Laval
Jacqueline Corbett, Université Laval
François Bastien, University of Victoria
Dominic Ste-Marie, Wendat Myths and legends

12:00 AM

Managing Tensions Between Speed and Safety: Digital Responsibility in Hybrid AGI Organizations

Lea Kuhlmann, OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology
Philipp Olschewski, Carl von Ossietzky Universität
Philipp Staudt, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

12:00 AM

Mobile Information Technology for Survival: The Case of Irregular Migration in the Mediterranean Sea

marc bidan, Nantes University
Wafa Bouaynaya, Bordeaux Université
Magalie Duarte, Université Bourgogne Europe, Burgundy School of Business
John au KINGSTON, Nantes Université Polytech Nantes

12:00 AM

Neurodiversity in Information Systems Research: A Review of the Literature and Research Agenda

Antoine Clarinval, Umeå University
Leif Sundberg, Umeå University

12:00 AM

Psychic Algorithms: Digitalization of the Rituals of Coffee Divination

Dicle Berfin Köse, BI Norwegian Business School

12:00 AM

The Morphogenetic Process of Post-Intervention Survival and Long-Term Sustainability in Digital Development

Luthfi Ramadani, Telkom University
Widia Febriyani, Telkom University

12:00 AM

Theorising Constitutional Corruption: A Typology and Research Agenda for IS Scholarship on Anti-Corruption Technology

Atta Addo, Surrey Business School

12:00 AM

Translating Platform Voices into Policy: An Analytical Framework for X/Twitter Discourse on Ultra-Low Fertility in Korea

Subin Lee, University of Canberra
Rosetta Romano, University of Canberra
Blooma John, University of Canberra
Neil Brittliff, University of Canberra

12:00 AM

Unmasking E-Government Trajectories: Heterogeneity in Corruption Control

Priyanko Banerjee, IIM C
Debashis Saha, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta

12:00 AM

Worker Dignity in the Age of AI

Isam Faik, Western University
Yasser Rahrovani, Western University
Janice Byrne, Ivey Business School at Western University
Fakhrossadat Ghamkhari, Western University

12:00 AM