Smart Systems and the Governance of Sociotechnical Transformation
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Smart Systems and the Governance of Sociotechnical Transformation
Journal: Behaviour & Information Technology
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Special Issue
Manuscript Submission Deadline: 20 October 2026
Behaviour & Information Technology invites submissions for a Special Issue examining smart systems as sociotechnical arrangements that influence behaviour, interaction, coordination, authority, accountability, and governance across contemporary digital environments.
About the Special Issue
Smart systems are increasingly embedded in homes, workplaces, healthcare, education, mobility, public services, and digital platforms. Rather than functioning solely as technical tools, these systems use sensing, data processing, algorithmic decision-making, and automated or semi-automated actions to shape human activities and relationships between individuals, organizations, technologies, and institutions.
This Special Issue seeks to advance human-centred, behavioural, organizational, and sociotechnical perspectives on smart systems. Particular attention is given to how technologies become embedded in everyday practices and institutional settings and how interfaces, algorithms, data architectures, monitoring systems, and automated feedback mechanisms influence behaviour, responsibility, trust, inclusion, exclusion, and power.
Topics of Interest
Submissions may address, but are not limited to:
Smart systems in homes and everyday environments
Smart systems in workplaces
Smart healthcare and care technologies
Smart systems in education
Automated and intelligent mobility systems
Smart cities and urban technologies
Digital government and public services
Platform-mediated environments
Human-centred AI
Hybrid intelligence
Human-AI collaboration
Human-machine interaction
Governance of smart systems
Sociotechnical transformation
Algorithmic decision-making
Algorithmic coordination and compliance
Accountability in AI-enabled systems
User adaptation to smart technologies
User negotiation and appropriation
Resistance to smart technologies
Trust in AI and smart systems
AI ethics
Information privacy
Digital surveillance
Algorithmic transparency
Power asymmetries in digital systems
Digital health and wellbeing
Digital work
Algorithmic management
Robotic management
Transformation of organizational routines
Datafication and monitoring
Prediction and automated feedback
Inclusion and exclusion
Digital vulnerability and inequality
Platform-based public services
Cross-cultural studies of smart systems
Comparative studies of sociotechnical transformation
Preferred Article Types
The Special Issue welcomes:
Empirical Papers
Conceptual Papers
Methodological Papers
Review Papers
Design-Oriented Papers
Research and Methodological Approaches
A broad range of research approaches is encouraged, including:
Qualitative research
Quantitative research
Mixed-method studies
Computational research
Theoretically driven studies
Comparative research
Cross-cultural research
Interdisciplinary studies
Submissions should make a clear contribution to understanding smart systems, governance, and sociotechnical transformation from a human-centred, behavioural, organizational, or information technology perspective.
Submission Information
Manuscript Submission Deadline: 20 October 2026
Authors should follow the journal's standard manuscript preparation and submission guidelines.
When submitting through ScholarOne, authors should select:
“Smart systems and the governance of sociotechnical transformation”
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Guest Editors
Wanhao Zhang
Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway
Email: wanhao.zhang@ntnu.no
Younghoon Chang
University of Nottingham Ningbo China, China
Email: Younghoon.Chang@nottingham.edu.cn
Sameer Kumar
Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Email: sameer@um.edu.my
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