Integrating Behavioral, Economic, and Technical Insights to Address Algorithmic Bias: Challenges and Opportunities for IS Research

Overcoming the Single-IS Paradigm in Individual-Level IS Research

Information Systems Research ◽

10.1287/isre.2021.1065 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Jin P. Gerlach ◽

Ronald T. Cenfetelli

Keyword(s):

Digital Technologies ◽

Redundant Information ◽

Design Decisions ◽

Individual Level ◽

Is Research ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

New Challenges

Over the years, the number of digital technologies that individuals use in their work and nonwork lives has increased significantly. These different technologies are often subject to interactions and interdependencies among them, which creates new challenges and opportunities for individuals. For instance, multiple digital technologies might be incompatible or offer redundant information to individuals. In this research, we offer a framework that can help scholars to study phenomena that involve multiple digital technologies and can assist designers and developers in making design decisions that facilitate beneficial interactions between technologies and mitigate undesirable ones.

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Making IS Relevant in a Connected World

Australasian Journal of Information Systems ◽

10.3127/ajis.v24i0.2509 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 24 ◽

Author(s):

Henry Linger ◽

Helen Hasan

Keyword(s):

Human Activities ◽

Adaptive System ◽

Complex Adaptive System ◽

The Internet ◽

Relevant Research ◽

Is Research ◽

Requisite Variety ◽

Exciting Opportunity ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

Complex Adaptive

The exponential growth of the Internet since the mid-1990s has greatly expanded the capacity of people everywhere to interconnect and engage through digital technologies. As a complex adaptive system of systems, the Internet has extended the range and complexity of phenomena of interest to Information Systems (IS) scholars. This is both an exciting opportunity and a challenge which we explore in this paper by revisiting the Intellectual Structures Framework (Hirshheim et al. 1996) which attempted to make sense of the fragmented adhocracy of IS, before the expansion and penetration of the Internet. We suggest that the IS adhocracy, with its multi-disciplinary and systems-oriented nature, gives IS researchers the requisite variety to contend with the increasingly diverse digital ecologies of IS-enabled human activities that have emerged in the ensuing two decades. Based on relevant research over these two decades we present a revised framework that (1) reflects the complexities of contemporary IS phenomena and (2) can act as an instrument for analysing such phenomena across a spectrum of human activities. We justify the form and content of the Revised Intellectual Structures Framework, providing examples of its application in IS research using appropriate research methods and techniques. We argue that our revisions to the original framework provides individuals, organisations, and societies with a conceptual lens that is necessary to better address the challenges and opportunities posed by the complexities of contemporary digital ecologies.

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Continuous hydrogenolysis of acetal-stabilized lignin in flow

Green Chemistry ◽

10.1039/d0gc02928a ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Wu Lan ◽

Yuan Peng Du ◽

Songlan Sun ◽

Jean Behaghel de Bueren ◽

Florent Héroguel ◽

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Keyword(s):

Steady State ◽

Challenges And Opportunities

We performed a steady state high-yielding depolymerization of soluble acetal-stabilized lignin in flow, which offered a window into challenges and opportunities that will be faced when continuously processing this feedstock.

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