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CFP | IT&P | Coding society. Programmatic encounters between information systems and social theory

  • 1.  CFP | IT&P | Coding society. Programmatic encounters between information systems and social theory

    Posted 09-02-2025 05:24
    Call for Papers for a 
    Special Issue of Information Technology & People (Emerald) on
    Coding society. Programmatic encounters between information systems and social theory
    Guest Editors: 
    • Steffen Roth, Excelia Business School, France; University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
    • Tilia Stingl de Vasconcelos Guedes, Vienna University of Applied Sciences for Management and Communication, Austria; Next Society Institute, Kazimieras Simonavičius University, Lithuania
    • Kresimir Zazar, University of Zagreb, Croatia; Next Society Institute, Kazimieras Simonavičius University, Lithuania
     
    Closing date for manuscripts submission: 16/01/2026
    This special issue aims to explore programmes as architectures of code that shape and are shaped by the social deployment of digital technologies. Drawing on Niklas Luhmann's social systems theory, it examines how programmes function not only within digital infrastructures but also as cultural forms, guiding distinctions, and interfaces between functional systems and organisations. Contributions will investigate how programmes structure inclusion and exclusion, organise social attention, reproduce stratified orders, and mediate between analogue and digital modes of communication. The special issue links these theoretical concerns to contemporary developments in artificial intelligence, platform infrastructures, and the programmability of social life. It invites interdisciplinary research that reflects critically on how programmes operate at the core of digital society-both as enabling scripts and as mechanisms of constraint. The issue will include contributions from the 2025 Luhmann Conference while remaining open to diverse methodologies and paradigms that engage with the social dimensions of ICT ...
     
    Read the full CFP here: https://wp.me/pvO07-2cY


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    Professor Steffen Roth

    Full Professor of Management, Excelia Business School La Rochelle, France
    Full Professor of Social Sciences, Kazimieras Simonavicius University, Lithuania

    Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK

    myURL: http://derroth.com
    ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8502-601X
    X: derrothdotcom

    Calls for papers

    CODING SOCIETY. Programmatic encounters between information systems and social theory @IT&P: https://wp.me/pvO07-2cY

    REPROGRAMMING. Observed with social systems theory @JOCM: https://wp.me/pvO07-2cJ

    PROGRAMMES IN MANAGEMENT AND ORGANISATION. Observed with social systems theory @MD: https://wp.me/pvO07-2ck

    Recent publications

    BIG DATA INSIGHTS INTO SOCIAL MACRO TRENDS: Expanding the horizon (1800-2018) @SRBS: https://wp.me/pvO07-2bL

    GUIDING DISTINCTIONS OF SOCIAL THEORY. Results from two online brainstormings and one quantitative analysis of the ISA Books of the XX Century corpus @CS: https://wp.me/pvO07-24Z

    THE STATE AS CREATIVE DESTROYER: A systems perspective on entrepreneurship by organised monopolies on violence @IJEBR: https://wp.me/pvO07-24C

    SPACESHIP EARTH. A total institution @EcolEc: https://wp.me/pvO07-1Zy

    TRUTH TABLES, TRUE DISTINCTIONS. Paradoxes of the source code of science @SPAA: https://wp.me/pvO07-1Pu

    HEALTH BEYOND MEDICINE. A planetary theory extension @SH&I: https://wp.me/pvO07-1ID
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