** CALL FOR PAPERS **

Special Issue of The Journal of MIS Research on Information Systems Research and Practice in the era of Web 2.0

The next generation of the Web (Web 2.0 technologies, such as YouTube, Wikipedia, MySpace) is rapidly changing the way we use information and communication technologies (ICT), not only in our work but also in our daily life. Organizations are taking advantage of these technologies to design and support new ways of communication, collaboration, coordination, and learning. Using these new technologies, organizations will be able to make existing processes more effective and efficient. The emerging ICT pose as challenges to existing theories and methodologies used in information systems (IS) research.

We invite original research papers with a focus on the changing role of IS research and practice in the era of Web 2.0. This special issue seeks research papers with critical reflections of the current IS research and practice, in addition to suggestions incorporating novel approaches via new avenues to research and practice. To this end, the special issue seeks original research papers from the following (but not limited to) topics:

• Management of Web 2.0 technology in organizations
• Use of Web 2.0 in managing IS resources
• IT governance
• Electronic commerce, mobile commerce, and ubiquitous commerce
• Human-computer interaction
• Design of Web services
• IT-enabled products and services
• Applications of Web 2.0 technology in virtual teams and knowledge management
• Cross cultural issues in the design and use of Web 2.0
• Social computing
• New forms of organizing enabled by Web 2.0
• Novel research approaches studying Web 2.0
• Global wireless services and businesses
• Theoretically informed case studies of real-life applications of Web 2.0

The purpose of this special issue is to increase our understanding of the impact that Web 2.0 technology has on from a micro-level with work organizations to a macro-level with the society, and to explore new ways to methodologically study embedded computing and mediated knowledge work.

* Submission of Manuscripts

All submissions must be in English, should represent original work done by the authors, and must NOT have been published, accepted for publication, or be presently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts should be prepared according to the submission guidelines of Journal of MIS Research (http://www.kmis.or.kr/): double-spaced with no more than 30 pages (7500 words). Reviews of the submitted manuscripts will proceed in accordance with the journal’s editorial policy. Submissions should be sent via e-mail as a Microsoft Word attachment to the journal at misr@kmis.or.kr titled as, “Submission to the Special Issue”.

* Important Dates

January 31, 2008 /Deadline for submission
March 31, 2008 /1st review results
June 30, 2008 /Deadline for re-submission of selected papers
September 15, 2008 /Final acceptance
October, 2008 /Special issue to be published

* Special Issue Editors

J.P. Shim (jshim@cobilan.msstate.edu), Mississippi State University
Youngjin Yoo (youngjin.yoo@temple.edu), Temple University
Hee-Woong Kim (kimhw@comp.nus.edu.sg), National University of Singapore