[Rdf-internal] FW: Online workshop for JIT Special Issue: Digital Futures (Jan 27 and Jan 29)

[Bernd Stahl (staff)]

Hi all,
If you are interested in attending the workshop for the SI that we want to submit the RDF paper to, please see below.
Bernd

From: Dirk Hovorka <dirk.hovorka at sydney.edu.au>
Sent: 24 January 2026 22:54
To: edavidso <edavidso at hawaii.edu>; Chiasson, Mike (MGMT) <mike.chiasson at ubc.ca>; muellerb <muellerb at uni-bremen.de>; Dirk Hovorka <dirk.hovorka at sydney.edu.au>; Daniel Schlagwein <schlagwein at sydney.edu.au>
Subject: Online workshop for JIT Special Issue: Digital Futures (Jan 27 and Jan 29)

Dear Authors,
We take this opportunity to thank all the authors for their interest and enthusiasm for the JIT Special Issue on "Futuring: 'Digital' Futures as a Novel Site of Inquiry and Imagination". We hope the feedback provided to those who submitted an extended abstract was helpful. If you did not submit an extended abstract, this brief workshop is intended to help you emphasize the alignment of your work with the ethos and goals of the Special Issue. We are also aware that the quite unorthodox topic of the special issue both opens possibilities and raises questions regarding what the SEs hope to see and what we expect.
We intended to offer these workshops earlier, but life sometimes happens. We are happy to now offer a brief workshop to provide a refinement of the CfP information (not a major change at all) and to address questions. Considering the international distribution of authors, we are offering two times to attend a ~ 60 minute workshop (via Zoom - these will cover the same ideas - plan to attend just one).  This workshop is entirely voluntary and is intended to help in these last stages of polishing your submission.
Please distribute this to your coauthors as I am sure we have missed some emails. We plan to address three aspects of the CfP:
1.      Submission categories: Although these are described in the CfP, we want to add clarity (and a 4th category) to what we hope to receive. This information may be helpful in the final polishing of your submission
2.      Advice to Reviewers:   It is quite likely that we will ask some of you to review and this information will also help authors craft submissions in style that reviewers can engage with. Reviewing unorthodox topics and formats will be challenging (and fun!) and we want to avoid the trap of evaluating submissions from traditional perspectives in IS.
3.      Questions: We are aware that there may be questions remaining both regarding specific feedback on your earlier submissions and or the general expectations the SEs have. We will allow time for questions.

PLEASE NOTE: The workshops will be  cover the same ideas. There is no need to attend both.
We apologise in advance for the short notice and the somewhat awkward times for some regions.

Workshop #1: Tues January 27th
UTC 12:00 (Sydney 23:00; Berlin 13:00; NYC 07:00)
https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/89719851591
Workshop #2: Thursday January 29th
UTC 21:00:00 (Sydney Friday 8:00; Berlin TH 20:00; NYC  TH 16:00)
Time: Jan 30, 2026 08:00 AM Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney
https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/84530510938

Although we hope some members of author teams can attend, we stress that attendance is not required. Our goal is to help authors submit their best possible work in helping the Information Systems field better research and engage with Digital Futures.

We hope to see you there!
JIT Special Issue Editors
Dirk S. Hovorka
Mike Chaisson
Liz Davidson
Benjamin Mueller



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Professor of Systems and Design

University of Sydney

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Senior Editor/Research Perspectives

Journal of the Association of Information Systems (JAIS)

2018 BGS Professor of the Year

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