Special Issue: Dark Sides of Digitalization

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Acknowledgments

This special issue would not have succeeded without the generous support of Vladimir Zwass, the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Electronic Commerce, the Associate Editors, and the anonymous reviewers, to whom we are grateful. The following Associate Editors (in alphabetical order) graciously contributed to the success of this special issue: Shamel Addas (Queen University, Canada), Tommy Chan (Northumbria University Newcastle, UK), Ioanna Constantiou (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark), John D’Arcy (University of Delaware, USA), Antonia Koester (University of Potsdam, Germany), Hanna Krasnova (University of Potsdam, Germany), Zach W. Y. Lee (Durham University, UK), Christin Matt (University of Bern, Switzerland), Gregory Moody (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA), Azadeh Savoli (IESEG School of Management, France), Alexander Serenko (Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada), and Stefan Tams (HEC Montreal, Canada).

Notes

¹ Digitalization and digitization are two conceptually overlapping terms with some nuanced differences. Digitization refers to the process of converting analog streams of information into digital bits, and digitalization refers to the ways many domains of our private and social life are restructured by and around digital technology [7]. In this special issue, our focus is on the dark sides of digitalization.

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Notes on contributors

Ofir Turel

OFIR TUREL ([email protected]) is a professor of information systems and decision sciences at California State University, Fullerton, and scholar in residence at the Department of Psychology, University of Southern California. His research interests include a broad range of behavioral, bio-physiological, and managerial issues related to information systems and technologies. He has published more than 150 journal papers in business, research methods, psychology, psychiatry, and medical journals, including such IS journals as MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, MIT Sloan Management Review, Journal of the AIS, European Journal of Information Systems, and Communications of the ACM. Dr. Turel’s research has been featured in numerous media outlets, including TV, radio, podcasts, and newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal, CBC, CNET, Times Higher Education, Rolling Stone, and PBS.

Hamed Qahri-Saremi

HAMED QAHRI-SAREMI ([email protected]) is an assistant professor of information systems at the College of Computing and Digital Media, DePaul University. He holds a Ph.D. in business administration with a concentration on information systems from the DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University. His research interests lie at the intersection of social and technological systems, including computer-mediated communications, electronic word of mouth, and online deviant behaviors. Dr. Qahri-Saremi’s papers have appeared in such journals as Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Information & Management, New Media & Society, and European Financial Review and have been presented at various conferences. He has served in various capacities as an associate editor, a track chair, and a mini-track chair for a number of journals and conferences in information systems.

Isaac Vaghefi

ISAAC VAGHEFI ([email protected]) is an assistant professor of information systems at Pace University–New York. He holds a Ph.D. in business administration–information systems from McGill University. His research primarily focuses on the negative aspects of technology use, especially technology addictions, as well as use of technology in healthcare. His papers have been published in Communications of the AIS, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems,, Information Systems Journal, and others and were presented at premier conferences of information systems and management disciplines. He has served as served as mini-track co-chair and associate editor for a number of academic conferences (ICIS, HICSS, and AMCIS). His work has been featured in such media outlets as the Washington Post, PBS, CBS, Fox News, Huffington Post, and Men’s Health.