[NORSLIS] Fwd: CFP: Minitrack on Documenting Work and Working Documents, HICSS-44

Fri Mar 12 19:30:29 GMT 2010

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> From: "Kevin Crowston" <crowston at syr.edu>
> Date: 12 mars 2010 17.13.22 CET
> To: "Isto Huvila" <isto.huvila at abo.fi>
> Subject: CFP: Minitrack on Documenting Work and Working Documents, HICSS-44
> 
> HICSS-44
> CALL FOR PAPERS
> Forty-fourth Annual
> Hawai’i International Conference on System Sciences
> Minitrack on Documenting Work and Working Documents
> January 4-7, 2011
> The Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort & Spa
> Kauai, Hawai'i
> 
> Additional details may be found on HICSS primary web site: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu
> 
> We invite papers for a minitrack on document work and the work of documenting. We define documents as typified and material communication, whether electronic, paper-based, wall mounted or set in stone, invoked in response to recurrent situations. The notion of document serves as a lens into the socio-technical or socio-material nature of what organizational members actually do day in and day out. Documents are socio-technical in that they are both material--and, thus, embody the technical infrastructure--and social--as they embody both the work practices and shared understanding of those involved.
> 
> For example, our production and distribution of the document in front of you involved the technology of word processors, several different computers, Google documents, hard copies, email messages and pdf files. We even touched a book in the process. Your reading of the call likely involves numerous other technologies; you are likely reading a digital version of this conference call that you received in your inbox or you might have stumbled over it among many other mini-track descriptions on the HICSS-44 website. Shared social practices are reflected in the degree to which you, the reader, and we, the authors, understand and share common knowledge about the form and contents of the genre of conference calls in general and HICSS calls in particular and reflect this knowledge in this document. The work we have done and that you are doing represents the basics of the work practices. And, the various material forms of the proposal are part of the infrastructure supporting HICSS and the broader information field.
> 
> In short, the production and consumption of this call involves both the work of documenting and document work. The work of documenting falls close to the definition of the verb, to "document," describing the act of providing factual or substantive support for statements made or hypotheses proposed; or to equip with exact references to authoritative supporting information (Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary). At the same time we engaged in document work involving the production, use, collection, classification, storage, retrieving and dissemination of documents within and across organizational settings.
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> A focus on documents is part of a larger trend in the academic literature. In parallel to the dissemination of increasingly complex information systems in organizational environments, there is an emerging literature studying document work and the work of documenting within and across organizational boundaries. These studies tend to oppose a purely information-based perspective propagating the abstract meanings and immaterial data communicated via various information systems. Instead this body of work largely draws on a pragmatic and practice-oriented perspective theorizing the social practices going into the manufacturing of documents through the manipulations of various material forms.
> 
> Topics for the minitrack include (but are not limited to):
> 
> •    Documents as part of organizational infrastructure
> •    Institutional ethnography
> •    Methods for studying documenting work and working documents
> •    Boundary documents
> •    Documents and coordination in action
> •    Immutable mobiles and mutable mobiles
> •    Documents and accountability
> •    The evolution of genres of digital documents, including non-textual genres
> •    Investigations of genre in use
> •    Analysis of particular document genres, e.g. email, spam, and deception
> •    Combining document and provenance
> •    Document life cycles
> •    Documents and their materiality
> •    Documents in Web 2.0 applications (Blogs, Wikis, Open Source)
> •    Documents in Healthcare
> •    Documents in  . . . . . .
> 
> 
> Examples of papers related to this minitrack include among others:
> 
> Østerlund, C. & Boland, R. J. (2009) “Document Cycles: Knowledge Flows in Heterogeneous Healthcare Information System Environments,” Proceedings of HICSS, 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2009.679
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> Lonsdale, H., Jensen, C., Wynn, E. & Dedual, N. J. (2010) “Cutting and Pasting Up: ‘Documents’ and Provenance in a Complex Work Environment,” Proceedings of HICSS, 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2010.127
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> Turner, D. (2010) “Can a Document be Oral?” Proceedings of HICSS, 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. DOI : 10.1109/HICSS.2010.91
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> McLeod, L. & Doolin, B. (2010) “Documents as Mediating Artifacts in Contemporary IS Development,” Proceedings of HICSS, 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Science. DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2010.155
> 
> The minitrack chairs welcome inquires from authors about the suitability of their work for the minitrack.
> 
> 
> MINITRACK CO-CHAIRS:
> 
> Kevin Crowston, Professor
> Syracuse University
> School of Information Studies
> Hinds Hall 348
> Syracuse, NY 13244-4100 USA
> Email: crowston at syr.edu
> Tel: +1 315 443-1676
> Dept: +1 315 443-2911
> Fax: +1 866 265-7407
> 
> Carsten Østerlund, Associate Professor
> Syracuse University
> School of Information Studies
> Hinds Hall 309
> Syracuse, NY 13244-4100 USA
> Email: costerlu at syr.edu
> Tel: +1 315 443-8773
> Dept: +1 315 443-2911
> Fax: +1 315 443-5806
> 
> 
> IMPORTANT DEADLINES
> 
> From now to June 1: If you wish, you may prepare an abstract and contact the minitrack chairs for guidance and indication of appropriate content.
> 
> June 15: Authors submit full papers by this date, following the Author Instructions. Please consult the HICSS main website for complete information http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu All papers will be submitted in double column publication format and limited to 10 pages including diagrams and references. HICSS papers undergo a double-blind review (June15 - August15).
> 
> August 15: Acceptance notices are sent to Authors. At this time, at least one author of an accepted paper should begin visa, fiscal and travel arrangements to attend the conference to present the paper.
> 
> September 15: Authors submit Final Version of papers following submission instructions posted on the HICSS web site. At least one author of each paper must register by this date with specific plans to attend the conference.
> 
> October 15: Papers without at least one registered author will be pulled from the publication process; authors will be notified.
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