{"id":1940,"date":"2021-08-30T04:52:06","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T06:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bise-journal.com\/?p=1940"},"modified":"2022-11-10T10:31:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T12:31:36","slug":"05-2023-technology-for-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bise-journal.com\/?p=1940","title":{"rendered":"05\/2023 \u2013 Technology for Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The past decades have been marked by the rapid digitization of almost every part of human life. Our work and private life, healthcare, education, governmental institutions, and society as a whole have been<\/em> undergoing an era of rapid change driven by new forms of digital communication, automation, new information sources, emerging digital markets, and social networks, as well as digital practices and workflows. With this transition that some analysts refer to as a \u2018digital transformation\u2019 and some intellectuals speculate to be a \u20182nd Neolithic revolution\u2019, come many ethical and value-related questions and challenges that are of high relevance for humanity. At the core, we must ask ourselves how we should technically and organizationally design and organize our IT-driven world so that humans can flourish in it (Spiekermann 2016). How can we build \u201cTechnology for Humanity\u201d as the IEEE standardization organization promotes in its logo?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pressing nature of these grand challenges demands a more comprehensive understanding of the undergoing transformation beyond the study of standalone values. In response, policymakers have taken numerous initiatives, for example, at the international level by announcing seventeen sustainable development goals and at the local level by creating large-scale publicly-financed research projects like the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society in Berlin. In a similar vein, many BISE\/IS institutes have woken up on this call by establishing such important initiatives as the Sustainability Lab at Vienna University of Economics and Business or by jointly collaborating on research projects that seek to address these issues. In addition to investigating privacy issues and personal data markets (e.g., Spiekermann et al. 2015; Krasnova et al. 2010; Trang et al. 2020), BISE \/IS scholars have embarked on studying the fundamental issues of human control, autonomy, and freedom vis-\u00e0-vis technology (e.g., Spiekermann and Pallas 2005). Among others, these research efforts have contributed to a better understanding of potential biases inherent in AI design (e.g., Lambrecht and Tucker 2019; Bauer et al. 2020), algorithmic work management (e.g., M\u00f6hlmann et al. 2021), echo chambers, and filter bubbles (e.g., Kitchens et al. 2020), health and well-being implications of ICT use in work (e.g., Benlian 2020) and social media (e.g., Krasnova et al. 2015; Krause et al. 2021) contexts, user perceptions in the context of online targeted political advertising (e.g., Baum et al.  2021), among others. In doing so, the grey human entity formerly called \u201cuser\u201d has started to be concretized in the many distinct roles created by new ICTs: Patients are now studied in relation to health applications (Mueller et al.  2018), citizens as natural participants of e-government processes (e.g., Tan et al. 2013; Nishant et al. 2019), crowd-workers in the context of their algorithmic supervisors (e.g., Straub et al. 2015; Cram et al. 2020), social networking users in the face of gamified platforms intentionally designed to be addictive (e.g., Turel and Serenko 2012), life-loggers with a view to personal data markets (e.g., Risius et al. 2020; Trang et al. 2020), to name a few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Against the background of these developments, we seek to elicit papers in this area for the BISE Special Issue \u201cTechnology for Humanity\u201d. Submissions to this special issue are encouraged from all theoretical and methodological perspectives. Thus, submissions can either investigate people in their specific roles and reactions to technology, relate to technology design or design methods to foster humanity and sustainability, be of a conceptual nature to better grasp the technological and economic changes we are witnessing, or review user studies and\/or technologies of interest in this research domain. Authors must clearly outline why their contribution is new and interesting for research and practice and how they contribute to human and social value creation through their work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n