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Living with Monsters? Social Implications of Algorithmic Phenomena, Hybrid Agency, and the Performativity of Technology

IFIP WG 8.2 Working Conference on the Interaction of Information Systems and the Organization, IS&O 2018, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 11-12, 2018, Proceedings

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Table of contents (14 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
  2. Setting the Stage

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Living with Monsters?

      • Margunn Aanestad, Magnus Mӓhring, Carsten Østerlund, Kai Riemer, Ulrike Schultze
      Pages 3-12
    3. Frankenstein’s Problem

      • Lucy Suchman
      Pages 13-18
  3. Social Implications of Algorithmic Phenomena

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29
    2. Algorithmic Pollution: Understanding and Responding to Negative Consequences of Algorithmic Decision-Making

      • Olivera Marjanovic, Dubravka Cecez-Kecmanovic, Richard Vidgen
      Pages 31-47
    3. Quantifying Quality: Towards a Post-humanist Perspective on Sensemaking

      • Eric Monteiro, Thomas Østerlie, Elena Parmiggiani, Marius Mikalsen
      Pages 48-63
    4. Advancing to the Next Level: Caring for Evaluative Metrics Monsters in Academia and Healthcare

      • Iris Wallenburg, Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner, Björn Hammarfelt, Sarah de Rijcke, Roland Bal
      Pages 80-95
    5. Hotspots and Blind Spots

      • Lauren Waardenburg, Anastasia Sergeeva, Marleen Huysman
      Pages 96-109
  4. Hybrid Agency and the Performativity of Technology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
    2. Re-figuring Gilbert the Drone

      • Mads Bødker, Stefan Olavi Olofsson, Torkil Clemmensen
      Pages 127-139
  5. Living with Monsters

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
    2. Thinking with Monsters

      • Dirk S. Hovorka, Sandra Peter
      Pages 159-176
    3. A Bestiary of Digital Monsters

      • Rachel Douglas-Jones, John Mark Burnett, Marisa Cohn, Christopher Gad, Michael Hockenhull, Bastian Jørgensen et al.
      Pages 177-190
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 199-199

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP WG 8.2 Working Conference on Information Systems and Organizations, IS&O 2018, held in San Francisco, CA, USA, in December 2018.


The 11 revised full papers presented together with one short paper and 2 keynote papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: setting the stage; social implications of algorithmic phenomena; hybrid agency and the performativity of technology; and living with monsters.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Southern Methodist University, Dallas, USA

    Ulrike Schultze

  • University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Margunn Aanestad

  • Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden

    Magnus Mähring

  • Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA

    Carsten Østerlund

  • The University of Sydney Business School, Darlington, Australia

    Kai Riemer

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