Digital Visibility: Design, Management, & Impacts
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Call for Papers
Digital Visibility: Design, Management, & Impacts
Journal: European Journal of Information Systems
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Special Issue
Manuscript Submission Deadline: 31 March 2027
Paper Development Workshop: 09 December 2026, Online
European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS) invites submissions for a Special Issue examining digital visibility and invisibility, including how digital technologies, algorithms, AI, platforms, data infrastructures, and automated agents influence who and what becomes visible, valued, monitored, or excluded in contemporary organizations and society.
About the Special Issue
Digital visibility has become increasingly central to organizational strategy, performance, identity, power, collaboration, and decision-making. Algorithmic systems and digital infrastructures can determine what information is surfaced or concealed, how contributions are evaluated, and how individuals and organizations manage their digital presence.
The Special Issue seeks research that develops stronger conceptual and empirical explanations of these dynamics. It brings together perspectives on system design, infrastructures, work, organizing, technology, power, agency, decision-making, and data to examine the design, management, and consequences of digital visibility and invisibility.
Topics of Interest
Submissions may address, but are not limited to:
Digital visibility and invisibility
Technologies and infrastructures of visibility
Algorithmic systems and visibility
AI-generated content
Blockchain and visibility
Social media algorithms and feeds
Data and compute infrastructures
Non-human agents and automated systems
Bots, digital twins, and avatars
Data practices and visibility construction
Data inclusion and exclusion
Generative AI and information visibility
Decision-support systems
Visibility in healthcare, security, engineering, and hiring
Transparency and opacity in digital systems
Visibility work in organizations
Digital identity management
Algorithmic performance and evaluation
Digital visibility games
Power and digital visibility
Algorithmic and agentic management
Trust, truth, security, and privacy
Verification and digital watermarks
Synthetic and algorithmic visibility
Workplace surveillance
Performance evaluation and managerial control
Organizational learning and knowledge sharing
Digital visibility and employee wellbeing
Privacy costs and resistance strategies
Governance and accountability of visibility systems
Emerging digital infrastructures
Key Research Themes
Designing, Developing & Deploying Systems of Visibility
Research on technologies, agents, data practices, digital infrastructures, and system-design choices that determine what becomes visible or invisible. This includes AI, blockchain, bots, digital twins, avatars, generative AI, and critical decision-support systems.
Using & Managing Systems of Visibility
Studies examining lived experiences, organizational dynamics, visibility work, digital identity, power, governance, trust, security, privacy, and strategic attempts to manage algorithmic visibility.
Impacts & Consequences of Systems of Visibility
Research investigating effects on individuals, organizations, workplaces, society, identity, autonomy, trust, innovation, organizational learning, collaboration, privacy, accountability, and governance.
Preferred Article Types and Methods
The Special Issue welcomes:
Empirical Research
Conceptual Research
Theory-Building Contributions
Philosophical Contributions
Qualitative Research
Quantitative Research
Computational Research
Simulation Studies
Econometric Research
Critical Research
Design Science Research
Opinion and Commentary Pieces
Methodological Innovations
Contributions from Information Systems and related areas such as organization studies, sociology of technology, science and technology studies, strategy, accounting and control, and adjacent digital and data-focused disciplines are welcomed.
Paper Development Workshop
An online Paper Development Workshop (PDW) will support prospective contributors. Participation in the workshop is optional, and authors may submit to the Special Issue regardless of whether they participate.
Authors may initially submit an abstract of up to 1,000 words for brief personalized feedback. Authors invited to continue will prepare a five-page abstract for discussion during the online workshop.
PDW Timeline:
Optional Abstract Submission: 07 September 2026
Feedback on Abstracts: 05 October 2026
Invited Five-Page Abstract Due: 01 December 2026
Online Paper Development Workshop: 09 December 2026, 2:00–4:00 PM CET (UTC+1)
Special Issue Timeline
First-Round Manuscript Submission: 31 March 2027
First-Round Decisions: 30 June 2027
Optional Revision Plan Meeting: 30 July 2027
Second-Round Revisions: 30 September 2027
Second-Round Decisions: 30 November 2027
Third and Final Revisions: 28 February 2028
Final Decisions: 30 April 2028
Submission Information
Authors should follow the European Journal of Information Systems submission requirements and submit their full manuscripts through the journal's online submission system.
Participation in the Paper Development Workshop is not a prerequisite for submitting a manuscript to the Special Issue.
Submit to European Journal of Information Systems
European Journal of Information Systems – Instructions for Authors
Optional PDW Abstract Submission Form
Special Issue Editors
Aljona Zorina
NEOMA Business School, France
Email: aljona.zorina@neoma-bs.fr
Ella Hafermalz
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Email: e.w.hafermalz@vu.nl
Thomas Grisold
WU Vienna, Austria
Email: thomas.grisold@wu.ac.at
Aron Lindberg
Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Email: alindber@stevens.edu
Mahya Ostovar
University of Galway, Ireland
Email: mahya.ostovar@universityofgalway.ie
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