Nordic Contributions in IS Research Second Scandinavian Conference,
This book contains the refereed proceedings of the Second Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems (SCIS), held in Turku, Finland, in August 2011.Inspired by the fact that Turku is the cultural capital of Europe in 2011, SCIS invited contr
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Hannu Salmela Anna Sell (Eds.)
Nordic Contributions in IS Research Second Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2011 Turku, Finland, August 16-19, 2011 Proceedings
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Volume Editors Hannu Salmela University of Turku School of Economics Department of Management Rehtorinpellonkatu 3 0500 Turku, Finland E-mail: hannu.salmela@utu.fi Anna Sell Åbo Akademi University Department of Information Technologies / IAMSR Joukahainengatan 3-5 A 20520 Åbo, Finland E-mail: anna.sell@abo.fi
ISSN 1865-1348 e-ISSN 1865-1356 e-ISBN 978-3-642-22766-0 ISBN 978-3-642-22765-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-22766-0 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011932689 ACM Computing Classification (1998): J.1, H.4.1, H.3.5, K.6, D.2
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Preface ICT of Culture – Culture of ICT
During the 21st century our society, culture and personal lives will be deeply influenced by advances in information and communication technology. Social media and social virtual worlds have already started transforming individuals from passive information consumers to active creators and distributors of information, knowledge and arts. We can already play with the idea that our technological capability will enable us to digitize everything that anyone has ever said and store it on Internet servers. How does all this affect our society and culture? How should the media industry and other companies capitalize on the new empowered consumer? How does this transformation change our concept of the welfare society? This transformation will also affect the culture of the IS profession. IT is not created in a vacuum or designed somewhere outside our society. The new applications of ICT are increasingly a product of the surrounding society and culture. Furthermore, the cultural context where the IS development takes place is becoming increasingly diverse. Implementation of applications and practices of their use takes place in groups that involve members from
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